Head of the Department of Theory of Journalism and Mass Communications of the Higher School of Journalism and Mass Communications of St. Petersburg State University. Candidate of Historical Sciences Honored Worker of the Higher School of the Russian Federation, Honorary Professor of St. Petersburg State University (2021) , Professor at Pan-European University (Slovakia) and Silesian University (Poland). Member of the Union of Journalists of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, the Association of Film Education and Media Pedagogy of the Russian Federation, the Coordinating Council of the Russian Communication Association. He was awarded the medal “In memory of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg”. Winner of the St. Petersburg State University Prizes “For Pedagogical Excellence” (2002), “For educational and methodological work” (2015) and “For scientific works” (2018), the All-Russian competition of scientific articles “New Year’s Media Express-2016”, International competitions of the National Association of Mass Media Researchers (2014, 2017, 2020), winner All-Russian competition “Golden names of higher education” (2019)
