JOURNALISM AND POLITICAL COMMUNICATION

The role of journalism in the information society: journalism studies in the digital age, developments in the journalist’s professional capabilities, the variety and reliability of information sources, the nature of preparing and presenting texts in online media, the new visual journalism, ethics for journalists and editors, user comments online.
Changes in news media structures, transformation of organisations and news systems, news market trends, changes in news media organisation under the conditions of convergence, concentration of news media property and transparency, impact of social media on the business of news media.
Interaction of news media and politics: political parallelism in news media systems, political communication, political journalism and historical experience, public broadcasters and politics, propaganda in the news and democracy.