At present there are 100 printed periodicals (10 of them in Moscow), registered in the Republic of Mordovia: 45 republican, 22 district, 7 published for mass-circulation (corporate), 12 national, 14 magazines. Specialization of editions mainly reflects existing Russian and world practice. Following types are published: social and political news-papers and magazines, publications for children and teenagers, women, businessmen, pensioners, dacha-owners, fishermen, car enthusiasts. Advertisement-and-information and reference editions are popular, as well as collections of «useful advice», various playing and developing editions.
Main type of newspaper edition is weekly in black-and-white printing with eight pages of A3 printing format. A number of large editions («Stolica S», «Vecherny Saransk» and others) are published in colour with greater number of pages.

Children’s magazines are printed in colour. District periodicals «Ruzaevka newspaper», «Temnikov news», as well as corporate newspaper «Creation in Ruzaevka» use colour printing. Offset type of printing.

Total run of periodicals in Mordovia is approximately 500 thousand copies, including 69 thousand copies of district newspapers and 15 thousand copies of magazines. Specific feature of press in Mordovia is relatively weak participation of traditionally influential all-Russian newspapers and magazines, their circulation is many times less than local editions. Total run of federal editions in the Republic of Mordovia vary within the limits of 100 thousand copies.
Electronic mass media in Mordovia includes 5 republican TV programmes and 6 city TV programmes. Radio broadcasting network in Mordovia consists of 8 district radio programmes, 20 republican district radio programmes and 2 city radio programmes.