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methods and to establish the new ones. The same applies to the forms of work organization in editorial staffs.

These are not the only ones, but the most important perspective directions for research on creative reserves of journalism, on journalistic abilities in the socio-psychological aspect. (Summary by the Author).

Zbigniew Klejn: Bulgarian Journalism in Development

In the first part of a comprehensive article (published in the last issue) the years-long Polish correspondent in Sofia presented the history, present state and developmental tendencies of the press in Bułgaria. Now, he charac-terizes the radio — almost up to today the most important communication medium in that country, discusses the interesting experiences in local cable broadcasting and the structure and perspectives of further development of the TV, as well as TV programs. (Editorial notę).

Shelton A. Gunaratne: Foreign News in Malaysian Press

The Author, a lecturer on mass communication at the Sains Malaysia University in Penang, presents the results of a content analysis of local press conducted by the students of the Higher Course in Journalism.

Malaysia, inhabited by 9 million people, has 19 dailies. Eight of them appear in Chinese, four in English, two in Malaysian and two in Punjabi. The results proved a hipothesis that the Malaysian press publishes a great amount of foreign news, devoting to them morę than one half of its infor-mative space. The biggest pressure is put on the news from Asia and Oceania, the least — on the news from Africa. A relatively big quantity of information concerns the United States. Malaysian dailies use chielfy the services of Reuter Agency. Next come the Associated Press and the United Press International. Most of the papers publish also the materials of the national Bernama Information Agency and of the French AFP. (Editorial Summary).