Stages and factors of professional identifi cation of students-journalists
The formation of a professional in journalism is a multifactorial phenomenon, the success of which, is the formation of the individual's stable positive complex of internal and external orientations in the profession and professional community. In the course of higher professional education, future journalists go through a number of stages of professionalisation: from the romanticisation of journalistic work to the consolidation of instrumental knowledge. The integration of a student into the professional space of journalism leads to the formation of a stable element of the structure of the individual, ensuring the successful performance of professional duty. Based on empirical data, we characterised the stages of professional identity of journalists ' students from the first to the fourth year. It is revealed that the formation of professional journalistic identity is influenced by a set of factors.