The aim of this article is to discuss the main features of the new media paradigm known as solutions journalism. The author used the content analysis method in order to analyse journalistic texts, written in keeping with the guidelines of solution journalism, published in 2020 on the Outriders website. Research has shown that the digital media environment has room for the creation of original, audience-engaging projects of exceptional visual appeal and simultaneously in line with the paradigm of quality journalism.

The article aims to prove that the narrative structure of The Stormy Life of Lasik Roitschwantz by Ilya Ehrenburg can be viewed as a starting point for understanding the overriding idea of the novel. In the material for interpretation among other things analysed what follows: the similarity between the narrative of the fi rst few chapters and the skaz narrative (Russian oral form of narrative) based on the defi nition of formal mimesis, the introduction to a “foreign word” narrative (the protagonist using reported speech and free indirect speech), the restriction of the storyteller’s role (which is the overriding element of the skaz narrative) and simultaneously putting the protagonist at the forefront, the language markers used in order to mask the convergence between the storyteller’s and the protagonist’s points of view. As a result, the article implies that the presence of a skaz storyteller allows analysing the fi gure of Lasik Roitschwantz not as a character from a book or of a certain type, but rather as a human being in a universal sense.