Article is devoted to questions of studying of gossip is as a speech genre in Russian and English linguistic cultures. Speech genres as well as works on linguistic consciousness, theory and classification of rumours and gossips proposed by linguists and psychologists have been studied. Gossips published in newspaper columns “It is rumoured that…” and “Gossip! Gossip! Gossip!” were used as study materials. Specific parameters of rumours genre have been identified.

This article describes theoretical and practical aspects of regional media, particularlies of media for teenagers, functions performed by the print media, as well as intensive development of regional youth media by the example of the regional children and youth newspaper “Your world”. The authors presented expectations analysis of youth readers.

This article describes theoretical and practical aspects of regional media, particularlies of media for teenagers, functions performed by the print media, as well as intensive development of regional youth media by the example of the regional children and youth newspaper “Your world”. The authors presented expectations analysis of youth readers.