Knights of the pen? : Michał Bałucki-journalist about the journalists’ ethos

The text concerns a question of journalistic ethics from its historical perspective. Journalism and literature of the second half of 19th c. contains many references to the essence of journalistic professional code. The focus of analysis is on playwright, novelist, journalist and publisher – Michał Bałucki. The article uses his work as an example of meeting point of the noble ethics with the ethics of the new generation of professional journalists. This is an important moment for journalist of the 19th c. Retrospective look at this kind of refl ections from that period is an attempt of analyses one of the stages of development of ideas about the essence of journalism in general