Abstract

The reform of higher education and science in Lithuania has brought new challenges: study programmes will have to be restructured according to new laws and it will be necessary to improve what has already been created. Therefore, the prospects for the discipline of journalism studies should be explored in the context of higher education and science reforms in Lithuania, withthe main focus on the following aspects:1) How to understand the aims and tasks of university schools of journalism in our modern networking society (original participation in the network of schools);2) How to achieve quality in university schools and their studies (how and what research programmes should be supported and implemented);3) What is the future of university studies, considering university or universities traditions, resources, and the needs of both graduates and the market. Keywords: history and changes in journalism studies, higher education and science reform, media research, university studies, creative communication, political communication, and freedom of the press.

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  • The prospects for the discipline of journalism studies should be explored in the context of higher education and science reforms in Lithuania, with the main focus on the following aspects: 1) How to understand the aims and tasks of university schools of journalism in our modern networking society; 2) How to achieve quality in university schools and their studies; 3) What is the future of university studies, considering university or universities traditions, resources, and the needs of both graduates and the market

  • Especially in the context of political communication, must take notice of the evolution of Lithuanian journalism and the roles it has taken since the 19th century in the United States of America, Prussia, other European countries, Russia and Lithuania itself

  • In Lithuania’s historical experience, it has mostly been equated with Lithuanian periodicals in Lithuanian language that have been published since the 19th century in so called Lithuania Minor, a territory that formerly belonged to the Kingdom of Prussia

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2) How to achieve quality in university schools and their studies (how and what research programmes should be supported and implemented); 3) What is the future of university studies, considering university or universities traditions, resources, and the needs of both graduates and the market. While delivering journalism lectures in Lithuanian, as practised the entire University, there were periodic attempts in certain academic years to provide information on the origins of Lithuanian journalism (especially the development of the media in the 19th century) as well as the circumstances for the formation of journalism in the world.

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