Аннотация:The main changes with their significant impact on modern media education in Russia occurred during the years of "perestroika" are examined in the article. They allowed expanding the methodological foundations of media pedagogy. Such a methodological basis transformation was based on the existing objective prerequisites: practical results were often ahead of the theoretical foundations; the USSR's withdrawal from isolation in relation to Western studies. The changes laid down in the period of "perestroika" became the basis for modern media education in our country.