Training for journalism teacher in the master’s program

Abstract

The author reveals the conceptual foundations and content of the training course on teaching
journalism, which is taught in the master’s program. The article uses the experience of Saint Petersburg State
University as a material for analysis. Journalism education is presented as an integrated complex that combines
multi-sided social and humanitarian enlightenment, translation of progressive professional ideology and
practical training. The course shows the impact of a number of interrelated factors on education. The author
characterizes one after another the following factors: normative (laws and official standards of education),
personnel (body and qualifications of teachers), professional and practical (industry requests), audience
(characteristics of students), and organizational and methodological. None of them can be considered dominant,
while each of them dictates some educational parameters that should be taken into account.