Yulia Andreeva steps up as Acting Dean of the Higher School of Journalism and Media Communications
Yulia Andreeva was born on October 30, 1970, in Kazan, and graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Kazan University in 1992. She worked as a spokeswoman in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Tatarstan (1993-1996), correspondent and editor of the legal investigations department of the newspaper Vechernyaya Kazan (1996-2000). Since 2001, she has worked at the Faculty of Journalism, with a total teaching experience of more than 23 years. In 2019-2021 she was the head of the master’s program Transmedia Storytelling: Web Format Scriptwriter, the head of the master’s program Crime Coverage in Creative Industries (from 2024).
She continues the traditions of her father – Honored Scientist of Russia, Academician of the Russian Academy of Education, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor Valentin Andreev, who worked at Kazan University for more than 45 years.
The new dean says, “The Higher School of Journalism and Media Communications is a modern educational cluster in the Institute of Social and Philosophical Sciences and Mass Communications, together with our colleagues we give future actors of the information market fundamental education, participating in grants, creating joint research, scientific, educational projects with philosophers, sociologists, political scientists. We are preparing journalists of the future, because the technologies of the new world should be in the hands of creative, but also knowledgeable and imaginative people. Kazan University is our school, our alma mater, and I would like to remind fellow professionals of this. We plan to create a pool of graduates and, relying on the experience of practicing journalists, help students to work on projects that are necessary for the Republic and the university. The media industry is a powerful tool for the development of national culture, strengthening the identity and self-consciousness of the nation, so I think it is important to build a harmonious system of training for the development of Tatar journalism.”
Dr Andreeva notes the importance of integration with other humanitarian departments in the university, cooperation with the Institute of Psychology and Education, the Faculty of Law, the Institute of International Relations, History and Oriental Studies, the Department of Information Policy of KFU, as well as, in particular, the student TV channel Univer TV.
Leonid Tolchinskii, who previously held the position of the Dean, left his post at his own request. Tolchinskii worked at Kazan University since 2016, and as Dean from 2018 to 2024.