The study of the hyper structure phenomenon in press intersects the issue of press genres. Hyper structure strengthens and awards a new importance to the journalistic genres. Within the succession of Bahtin’s theories, genres have a paramount value in the linguistic interaction as they allow the integration of the enunciations into our intra and extra linguistic experience. This paper sets out to follow on a defined newspapers’ corpus how hyper structure, as manner of organizing the knowledge categories in general, transposes into press and favours within the structuring of media communication certain journalistic genres.