The participants were not only students of the specialty "Journalism", but students from other faculties and even other universities: DGTU, RANEPA,VGIK and Rostov State University of Economics. Every day participants were waited by master classes from skilled journalists and coffee breaks, and in the last day of the forum-delivery of certificates of participation.

MEDIASTART was opened by Natalia Arkhipenko, Director of the Institute of Philology, Journalism, and Intercultural Communication. She encouraged the participants to learn as much knowledge as possible from the experts, and she stayed for the first master class.

 The first speaker was Eduard Ratkevich, a graduate of the University and a leading city radio station "Rostov FM". He set the pace for the next 3 days: participants not only listened to the lecture, but also performed practical exercises for breathing, diction and voice development. In the next master classes, too, did not have to be bored. Svetlana Grinevich, Creator of "InogdaTV" and the teacher of the Institute of Philology, Journalism, and Intercultural Communication in Video and installation, at the end of her master class analyzed submitted video works, pointing out errors and the disadvantages of each.

 Konstantin Milchin, managing editor, "Gorky", told about the broadcast from Moscow and how to do good reporting, and Julia Urbancova from Saratov shared experience in the creation of student TV. Also as experts Arkady Budnitsky ("Reportage photography"), Oksana Miroshnichenko ("Live stream. Behavior in the frame"), Anna Glebova ("Television reports"), Ivan Afonin ("Entertainment shows") and the head of SFEDUMEDIA Alexander Kolesnikov ("Media in love").

In addition to the journalistic workshops, the participants listened to a lecture on SMM from Vladislav Glebov, who spoke about the main trends of marketing in social networks in 2018. In the center of attention was the promotion in Instagram, which immediately interested the audience. Expert advice, what "avatar" to put to attract subscribers, how to collect more "likes" and comments, attracted the attention of both novice bloggers and ordinary users of social networks.

 Pleasant atmosphere on the forum helped to create not only speakers, but the organizers of the "MEDIASTART". The head of SFEDUMEDIA special projects Olga Vashchenko shared her impressions after the closing of the forum and thanked the participants and those who supported this event.