The Presidential Library presented the prize for "revolutionary transfer" within the framework of the XV Northwest Media Forum

Within the framework of the XV Northwest Media Forum, the winners of the journalism contest "SeZaM-2017" were awarded. The winner in the nomination "Historical Journalistic Investigation", established in 2012 by the Presidential Library, was the series of TV programs "Petrograd of 17s" TV channel "Russia 1 - St. Petersburg".

The Presidential Library awards this category for the sixth time already. All the materials of the winners in this nomination since the "SeZaM-2012" was held in the Presidential Library are being digitized and enriched by its electronic fund. "Over the years, it seems to us, the library has become a home for the journalistic community of the North-West", - it was noted at the award ceremony.

In addition to the St. Petersburg TV journalists who supported the nomination this year, Elena Khatanzeyskaya (publication “Pomorian Karbas”, newspaper “Zvezda”, Leshukonskoye village, Arkhangelsk region) and Konstantin Belchenko (publication "There, on the known routes …", An online edition "Social Kaliningrad").

Within the framework of the agreement signed between the Presidential Library and the North-West Media Association in 2012, the library's electronic fund has been enriched with the TV film "Blockade Archives" of the creative staff of STRC "Petersburg" of the VGTRK holding, a historical investigation "Through the Years, Through the Ages", presented by Kaliningrad the truth ", a series of articles of 2014-2015 by Irina Khanzarova from the newspaper "Narjana Vynder" and other outstanding materials of journalists of the North-Western District.

The North-West Media Forum includes round tables, meetings, discussions, presentations. The participants examined topical issues of training qualified personnel, the themes of forming a networked society and interaction of social networks with media in covering emergency situations, and discussed the problems of the language of modern journalism. Particular emphasis is placed on the fact that our journalism "recovers" and, moving away from sensationalism, increasingly raises the real social problems that concern the residents of the "SeZaM-2017" regions represented at the forum.