Purpose and objectives

The Journal is a scholarly publication in the humanities devoted to the study of the history of the press and the history of journalism as components of the historical and cultural development of society. The main focus is on the study of the Ukrainian and world press of the 19th–21st centuries in the context of the social, political, intellectual, and cultural processes of the respective periods.

The Journal publishes the results of historiographical, source-studies, and cultural research in which the press is considered as a historical source, a form of public communication, and a cultural phenomenon. The scope includes theoretical and methodological aspects of the study of printed mass media and journalism in general; the history of the establishment and functioning of individual periodicals and press systems; issues of press bibliography, typology, functional purpose, and tasks; the study of the specific ways in which socio-political problems and events are reflected in the press; problems of the development of press traditions, editorial practices, genre models, and the evolution of media communications; research on personalities and professional communities connected with the development of the press; as well as the role of journalism and the press in the formation of the public sphere, cultural memory, and national identity.

Programmatic objectives of the Journal

• to promote the development of press studies as a historical discipline focused on the analysis of the press, journalism, and media communications in their evolution and in their social and cultural contexts;
• to develop methodological approaches to the analysis of the press as a historical source, encouraging the use of interdisciplinary tools from history, cultural studies, and source studies;
• to actualize the personalized dimension of press history by supporting biographical and prosopographical studies of media figures, editorial teams, and professional communities;
• to support research on the history of media communications, considering communicative practices of the past as an important factor in the formation of the public sphere, social discourses, and collective memory;
• to integrate Ukrainian historical research into the broader European and global scholarly context, in particular through comparative studies, historiographical reviews, and reviews of new academic publications.