Dean of SUSU Faculty of Journalism Included Among Top 50 Most Influential Women of the Region

 

Doctor of philosophical sciences, dean of the faculty of journalism, head of the SUSU department of journalism and mass communications, Honored Cultural Worker of the Russian Federation, and famous journalist Lyudmila Shestyorkina has been included in the ranks of the most influential female elites of the Chelyabinsk region according to the RANEPA for ten years. This year, 50 leading female representatives of our region were included in this rating. Among them are senator of the upper House of the Russian Parliament Irina Geht, head of the region’s OFAS Anna Kozlova, chairman of the Journalists’ Union of the Chelyabinsk Region Olga Davidenko, and more.

Lyudmila Shestyorkina gained fame in the general public as a result of her professional activities as the Chelyabinsk region’s All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company correspondent and as an innovator and researcher in journalistic education. She created and implemented the first student television broadcasting company in Russia at SUSU – SUSU-TV; the Radio SUSU studio; and a unique project, the only of its kind in Russia, called the 360-degree convergent newsroom – a modern media space for creating multimedia informational materials for all types of mass media, which is a leader in the creation of an international informational space. Under the leadership of professor Lyudmila Shestyorkina, the faculty of journalism is developing dynamically and SUSU implements innovative approaches to teaching students the skills of a universal journalist within its journalism education. Alumni of the SUSU faculty of journalism work successfully in leading mass media sources, public relations firms, press corps, and informational agencies of Chelyabinsk region, different Russian regions, and abroad.

Lyudmila Shestyorkina is the vice president of youth politics at the Eurasian Academy of Television and Radio and is actively developing the university’s ties with international partners. She took part in a media forum in the European University Viadrina in Germany with a presentation entitled «Aktuelle Probleme des Journalismus in Russland im Kontext zunehmender Medienkonvergenz».

L.P. Shestyorkina gave a talk entitled “Journalist education: innovative technologies” at the international World Journalism Education Congress in Belgium. She was a co-speaker at the International Scientific Conference of the Eurasian Association of Journalist Education in Tbilisii.

Lyudmila Shestyorkina was awarded the Nevskiy Prize and a Saint Petersburg State University memorial medal for her contributions to the theory and practice of journalist education as well as a winner’s certificate in the Russian competition Manager of the Year 2012 in the category “mass media”.

She was awarded the 2nd rank Order “For Merit to the Fatherland”.

In 2016 she received the highest award of the Academy of Russian Television “Student TEFI” for her personal contributions to the development of professional education in television. In this year she became the initiator of SUSU’s addition as an institutional member of the European Journalism Training Association.

 

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