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The textbook synthesises modern views on journalism, its structure and functions, place in the media system and mission in society, highlights the content of professional and ethical standards and their role in journalistic activity. It provides a reasoned explanation of the specifics of mass media and mass communication. Particularly valuable for those who are learning the profession is the presentation of the genre system of modern journalism, the principles and technologies of preparing multi-genre information materials for different types of media, and the methods of journalists' work with information sources, facts and expressive means.

For students of higher education institutions and anyone interested in the theoretical foundations of journalism and journalistic skills.