Stages of development of printing media mass information in the Republic of Tajikistan in the period of state independence
The article is devoted to the analysis of the main structural and typological trends in the development of the press system of the Republic of Tajikistan after it gained independence. It is noted that the transformations caused by historical changes in the life of the country in the post-Soviet period, demanded that the media change the information paradigm. This allowed the Tajik press to radically restructure its activities taking into account the preferences and interests of information consumers and made it possible for a number of periodicals to remain competitive in the information market of the country. The key stages of the evolution of the print media of Tajikistan in the years of independence, their essential features and parameters have been established. Each new stage of development of the Tajik press of the independence period is marked by the birth of new themes, forms and genres that form the new model of periodicals. According to the authors, highlighting the stages of development of print media contributes to the effective organization of the source material and can serve as a coordinate system in identifying both the essential features of the media system of a given period of time and the main trends of its development on a more global scale, in conditions of fundamental socio-political, economic and cultural transformations in the country.