The main trends in the development of Ukrainian business journalism in the XXI century
The article considers the historical preconditions for the development of the business press, a theoretical analysis of the formation of Ukrainian business publications. In the process of searching for theoretical sources of the business press, the methodological basis was chosen the principle of historical determinism. The study showed that the emergence of business journalism was facilitated by international trade relations, which were actively developing in the early XVII century. The socio-communicative approach allowed to concentrate on the communication process of the participants of business interaction, which took place by means of the print media and to highlight its main features. As a result of the research the peculiarities of the target audience of the business press are determined, the main features of the content of business publications are indicated and the dependence of the business press on the state of economic development in the country is proved.