The chronicle in opinion journalism. facts and interpretation

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.