The article focuses on investigative journalism and the figure of the journalist in a television series, using the example of the series A Journalist’s Last Article (2018), the events of which unfold during the period of perestroika, including restructuring in the press and television sectors, and the era following this restructuring. Behind the opposition of print and television journalism is the opposition of “true” and “non-true” investigative journalism. I argue that there is a shift in emphasis in contemporary TV series, especially about contemporary reality, from investigative journalism to live “unmasking”.
