The competition of journalistic skills "Siberia.ABOUT": seventeen years of the history of the Siberian media

Despite the relatively little attention paid in the Russian scientific literature to competitions of professional skills of journalists, we consider it possible to assert that referring to this kind of material can be of great value, since it reflects examples of high-quality journalistic work. "Siberia.PRO" was first held in 2006, so it represents an almost twenty-year chronicle of regional domestic journalism. "Siberia.PRO" is supported by the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Siberian Federal District. From 2006 to 2023 inclusive, more than 670 media outlets and over 4,000 journalists participated in the project. The purpose of this interregional competition is to promote the positive experience of cooperation between authorities, business and the media within the framework of socio-economic development programs implemented in the Siberian Federal District. That is, the theme of the contest's nominations corresponds to the main directions of the country's development and often correlates with the President's message to the Federal Assembly. This scientific study presents the fixation and analysis of the Siberian media that won the interregional competition of journalistic excellence "Siberia.ABOUT" from 2006 to 2023 The article reflects the transformation of the nominations "Siberia.ABOUT" as a reflection of the changing state tasks assigned to regional media, it allowed us to see the topics that are perceived as the most deserving of awards. The work done made it possible to identify the media of ten regions of the Siberian Federal District, which became winners in different years "Siberia.ABOUT". And since the significant transformation of the Russian media system caused by the events of 2022 raises the question of fixing the state of regional media both at a turning point and in historical retrospect of the last two decades, such "mapping" allows us to identify examples of media that best coped with covering topics important to the state. The content of these media can be further analyzed in journalism classes at universities or become an empirical basis for analysis in the framework of scientific work to identify the features of the regional media discourse.