Legal Regulation for Online Journalism

The legal regulation of new forms of journalism, such as online journalism and blogging, necessitates a discussion and clarification of key concepts. The implementation of government policies on telecommunications, communications, and media is underway, but challenges in digital security, personal data protection, the lack of rules governing civil online journalism (blogging), and the regulation of digital transformation in the internet and media spheres persist. Some issues remain outside the sphere of legal regulation, including the transition to digital broadcasting and the rise of online publications, regulation of social networks (including their concept, types, content monitoring, and blocking), regulation of user-generated content, the correlation between user agreements and editorial standards for both leading and new media (social networks), as well as the regulation of electronic messenger services (messengers), streaming platforms and services, news aggregators, and news agencies in Russia and other countries, mobile applications, interactive television (Internet television), the realization of the right to newsletter (subscription), the rights to computer games; new rules for Internet advertising agencies, “network informants” and insiders as sources of information (especially in the aspect of national interests); self-regulation and co-regulation of Internet journalism. How can we effectively coordinate the actions of lawyers and journalists to establish unified and clear rules for online journalism?