The training and methodological set includes a training manual with control questions for repetition, a list of recommended literature on each topic and a textbook. It includes the works of journalists, publicists and politicians, whose work had a decisive impact on the development of the media, freedom of speech and press. For students of faculties and departments of journalism of universities, teachers of the history of foreign journalism and everyone who is interested in the history of foreign journalism and socio-political processes of the XX - beginning of the XXI century.