Vladimirova T.N. 1
1 Sholokhov Moscow State University for the Humanities
To predict the development of journalism education should be regarded as a knowledge-based system with all its fundamental components. The article is devoted to the problem of improving the training of journalists by identifying organizational and substantive nature of journalistic education as a system. For this purpose the basic historical development stages of journalistic education, features a multilevel training of future journalists in conditions of modernization of higher education. Because journalism education cannot be considered outside the context of a high school education, the author of the article reviewed the four five-year plan “that determined the content-conversion in the Graduate School of design. Today journalism education goal is to ensure the effective reproduction of highly qualified journalists in view of the continuous media convergence, its main task is to provide multi-level training future journalists to work as an act of mediated their competences and creativity-creative individuality, and we identified a number of features that suggest three levels.