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Russia's School for Scandal a Makeover of The Sun?
The editor of the weekly Zhizn, Aram Gabrelyanov, has opened a tabloid journalism school at the newspaper's Moscow office, offering classes taught by staff reporters and jobs for the best students.
The newspaper, whose name means Life, is Russia's only red-top -- thanks to its slavish copying of the design of Britain's famous daily The Sun.
Just nine years old, Zhizn has built up a formidable reputation for breaking real news, a rare commodity in Russia's staid newspaper world.
When a policeman went on a shooting spree in a Moscow supermarket in May, killing seven people, Zhizn was first to post security camera footage on its website. The shocking footage only appeared on state news agencies' websites hours later.
When a mafia kingpin was shot by a sniper outside a Moscow restaurant in July, Zhizn reporters reached the scene before police, the editor boasts.
A jovial but tough-looking man with a broken nose, Gabrelyanov exuded enthusiasm and confidence as he spoke without notes to the students during one of his recent classes.
"Unfortunately no one likes tabloid journalism in Russia. It's customary to say it's ugly and unethical," he said. "I completely disagree. There are two types of journalism: interesting and not interesting."
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