“JOURNALISM OF INTROVERTS”: EXPANSION OF A NEW PSYCHOTYPE IN THE POST-PANDEMIC PERIOD

Abstract

The article examines the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on modern media in terms of patterns of behavior of a journalist and typical models of actions carried out by a journalist in the process of work. New media have radically changed the way we collect, process, and correct material, ultimately leading to the rise of “introvert journalism.” Using this term, introduced for the first time in this study, the researchers understand the emerging trend of introverts working in journalism, which correlates with the results of Eysenck testing of journalism students. The number of introverts exceeds expected due to the fact that students who took distance learning in high school and observed social changes associated with remote work at a fairly conscious age, began to consider working in the media as their future profession. This has already begun to reshape the media agenda, types of materials, genre composition of content, and in the future it will change it even more significantly.