Tarpukario spaudos Šiauliuose raida: „Momentas“, „Mūsų momentas“, „Įdomus mūsų momentas“ /

Between the wars (1918–1940) Lithuanian Government was taking more care of culture and education, which led to periodical prospering, especially of newspapers and weekly. In 1928–1940 gutter weekly “Momentas” (1928–1930), chief editor Jurgis Janulaitis, “Mūsų momentas” (1930–1933) and “Įdomus mūsų momentas” (1933–1940) chief editor Bronius Buišas were published. These publications are subject of this paper. The weekly were analysed using description, interpretation and comparative methods. Listed issues were analysed. They were gutter periodicals, where most place was taken by criminal news, affair, sensation, famous people personal life descriptions. They also publicised articles about significant Lithuanian and world cultural events. The weekly “Momentas”, “Mūsų momentas”, “Įdomus mūsų momentas” had permanent columns with similar information. “Momentas”: Chronicle, Jokes, Various, Review of living days, “Mūsų momentas”: Jokes, Sports, “Įdomus mūsų momentas” included new columns Here and abroad, For free hour, Our scout corner, News for women. The weekly were regional periodicals: most articles were about Šiauliai city and regional events, actualities, news. Readers also were offered news from Lithuania and the world, but not so abundantly. Gutter weekly “Momentas”, “Mūsų momentas”, “Įdomus mūsų momentas” publicized literal creations as well. Mostly it was popular beletristics: satires (Cingu-Lingas “Ko trūksta Šiauliams”), sentimental low artistic level poems, criminal and fiction novels (Bronius Buišas “Tvanas Šiauliuose”), but world classic also was published (Fedor Dostoyevsky, Alexander Pushkin, Anton Chekhov), translated by publishers.The weekly changed. First of all in number of copies: “Momentas”: 2 000, “Mūsų momentas”: 2 500, “Įdomus mūsų momentas”: 2 500 copies. This shows that the periodical gained popularity. Name of the weekly also changed: “Momentas”, “Mūsų momentas”, “Įdomus mūsų momentas”. Later periodicals had more literal creations, more news from abroad. “Momentas” had much commercial ads and announcements, but this reduced later. Development of “Momentas”, “Mūsų momentas”, “Įdomus mūsų momentas” shows that their publishers sought their publications to be the most popular in Šiauliai region, so they amended them adapting to the new readers’ needs.

Grantor dc:publisher

Institutional Repository of Vilnius University

Year dc:date

2010

Author dc:creator

• Brašiškienė, Deimantė,

Contributors dc:contributor

• Maskuliūnienė, Džiuljeta

• weekly ; Šiauliai press between the wars ; gutter press ; regional press ; development of newspapers

Statement dc:rights

• info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

Language dc:language

lit

Repository record dc:identifier

https://repository.vu.lt/VU:ELABAETD1943747&prefLang=en_US

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vu.lt:elaba:1943747