The present study surveys the evolution of journalism and mass media as
an academic discipline in Egypt through three generations: the pioneers who
belongs to different academic disciplines mainly humanities and social sciences,
the second generation who graduated from the department of Journalism,
Faculty of Arts, Cairo University and the third generation of media researchers
who are graduates of the Faculty of mass Communication, Cairo University.
The study focuses on the third generation in terms of the heterogeneity of their
professional attitudes and ideologies, the problems they encounter and the rights
they are denied because of these problems