The Odessa press is the main source of foreign news in the South of Ukraine in the second half of the 19th century

Abstract

The article explores the materials of the Odessa press of the second half of the 19th century as the main source of foreign news in the South of Ukraine. In the period under review, the importance of periodicals in the social, political and cultural life of Ukraine was extremely important. Any event immediately became known and appeared in the press. There was a significant difference between the capital and regional press, both in quantitative and qualitative terms. The regional press formed the public opinion of the South of Ukraine. The main problems that were raised on the pages of the periodicals were identified. The main areas of reflection of life abroad were assessments of internal, economic and foreign policy development of countries. Issues of social, cultural, scientific and technical development remained in the background. Given the interests of society, journalists tried to convey the content of events as fully as possible. The Odessa newspapers published various news about everyday life of the population abroad. At the forefront of the editorial staff was the task of summarizing the facts, comprehensive analysis and coverage, the completeness and freshness of the news. The article shows that the study of regional periodicals is one of the important tasks for today. Such editions are an important historical source of the period under study. Editions have evolved over the course of historical development. Both the external side of the publication and the information policy changed. The process of forming estimates of social, economic, domestic and foreign life of foreign countries is shown. A number of circumstances contributed to a significant increase in public interest in the history and political development of foreign countries. Special attention was paid to political turmoil in the United States of America.