Factors Transgressing Journalism’s Contemporary Mission and Role

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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.

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Greg Simons

Uppsala University; Ural Federal University

Email: gregmons@yahoo.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6111-5325

Associate Professor, Humanitarian Institute of Ural Federal University (Russia); Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Uppsala University (Sweden).

P.O. Box 514, SE-751 20, Uppsala, Sweden; 19 Mira St, Yekaterinburg, 620002, Russian Federation

Dmitry L. Strovsky

Ariel University’s Research Centre for Defence and Communication; School of International Studies at Sichuan University

Author for correspondence.
Email: dmitry.strovsky@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1651-2484

Professor, Dr. of Political Science, Research Associate at Ariel University’s Research Centre for Defence and Communication (Israel), Visiting Professor of the School of International Studies, Sichuan University (China).

65 Ramat HaGolan St, Ariel, Israel; No. 24, South Section 1, Yihuan Road, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, 610065, P.R. China

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