THE CHRONICLE IN OPINION JOURNALISM. FACTS AND INTERPRETATION
Victoria BULICANU, Universitatea de Stat din Moldova
Abstract
The diversity of genres of opinion in Moldovan journalism and the multiple possibilities of approaching events
within the framework of journalistic opinion materials allow the examination of the genres and species of journalistic
branches in new contexts every time. The article below examines the characteristics of the chronicle as a journalistic
genre of opinion and observes the traditional but also the new valences of the chronicle texts. At the same time, in the
materials presented in the article below are proposed examples of chronicle texts with the analysis of their specifics
in order to observe the mandatory and necessary elements of the chronicle, according to the specifics of the genre, as
well as the identification of those characteristics that will not be found in other opinion texts.
Key words: chronicle, opinion journalism, subjectivity, audience, angle of approach, journalistic product, journalistic genre, author’s show, periodicity, hybridization.
