CURRENT ISSUES IN MODERN TEACHING OF JOURNALISM IN THE XXI CENTURY

With the development of modern society and the restructuring of the Ukrainian education system, teaching journalism has an important role. At the present stage of development of pedagogy and journalism pedagogy as a whole, there was an urgent need to modernize the training of journalists. It is well known, by turn, influence of the media on people's minds, the formation of political, civil and social position in the society as a whole are enormous. Key information, which brings us to the journalist, is fixed in the mind of people and formulates a certain setting in human's mind. That is why the main components are the factors in the preparation of high-quality, highly skilled staff and the formation of journalist pedagogy. The status of teaching journalism in the XXI century in Ukraine is not a well studied problem; however, our research is the study of potential functions for students who learn journalism.