Political journalism as a direction of infiormation activity

Abstract

The features of political journalism due to its subject field are analyzed. The authors focus on three issues: defining the essence of political journalism, revealing the specific features of journalism in politics, highlighting the relationship between political science and political journalism. The main conclusions of the study are as follows: political journalism includes only those publications in the media, the subject of which is directly the political sphere of public relations. Political journalism is determined by the following factors: political regime, the priority of the function of social control and the cyclical nature of activity. Political journalism, although related to political science, is at the same time significantly different from it.