Open AccessFactors Transgressing Journalism’s Contemporary Mission and Role
Author(s) -
Greg Simons,
Dmitry Strovsky
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
vestnik rossijskogo universiteta družby narodov. seriâ literaturovedenie, žurnalistika
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2312-9247
pISSN - 2312-9220
DOI - 10.22363/2312-9220-2022-27-1-109-121
Subject(s) - journalism , sociology , contemporary society , technical journalism , political science , public relations , media studies , environmental ethics , social science , philosophy
This discussion article envisages five different contemporary challenges and pays special attention to the arguments as to why contemporary journalism losses its professional priorities and gets mixed in with other types of mass communication, particularly with public relations (PR) and propaganda. This clarification is of great importance not only for purely professional purposes, but also for broad social priorities. Arguments concerning the role and mission of journalism place it anywhere between watchdog and lapdog which makes the process of studying journalism uncertain and even contradictory as it is caught between the binds of historical values and the traps of contemporary practice.