Innovative Methods of Future Journalists' Competences Formation

The article is devoted to the peculiarities research of the project methods introduction of teaching future journalists and the experimental testing results of their effectiveness in the educational process. Examples of the relevance of the modern format of teaching the disciplines “Newspaper and Magazine Production”, “Publishing Management” and “Publishing” to applicants for the first (bachelor’s) level of higher education in the specialty “061 Journalism” are provided. The experience of introducing project methods of teaching students at the Department of Journalism of the Faculty of Philology of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University for 2018–2021 is analyzed, and the author’s vision of a new concept of the educational process is proposed. The results of a survey of students and employers on the effectiveness of general and professional competencies formation of future journalists based on project teaching methods are presented. The paper analyzes the student printed projects of the “Journalism” specialty of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University: the book project “Between the text” and the periodical project, within which future journalists learn to write in various journalism genres, to form personally recorded interviews with the public of the region and media specialists. It is outlined and substantiated by the facts that self-created and filled newspapers, magazines, and books by future journalists motivate their cognitive activity in the modern educational process, develop independence in research activities, and the acquired interactive practical skills and professional competencies will be necessary for the future profession. The article refers to an Internet resource where you can get to know student publications and innovative projects