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The book assesses the state of contemporary news reporting, analyses its practical procedures and theoretical foundations, and reflects on the content of the basic concepts of objectivity, impartiality, and balance. The author examines in detail the process of reality transformation in news production and the defining of news professional rules. He traces the news life cycle, describes the censorship distortions of news, and shows the mechanism of creating disinformation, using concrete examples. He summarizes the parameters of public news service, defines the characteristics of news as a commodity, and evaluates the forms of news media ownership. The work argues against the evaluation of news reporting as a mirror image of reality or as a manipulative tool of mediacracy and a means of political domination. It reflects on the position of a journalist in the era of social networks, digitisation and robotisation of news.