The type of journalistic thematic specialization depends on the personal interests of the journalist, the specifics of his education, and his level of understanding of the significance of the topic he is engaged in.
Further, everything is determined by intelligence, talent, level of literary language proficiency, ability to find and evaluate information, willingness to defend and follow the principles of freedom of independent judgment, and personal honesty.
At the same time, the journalist has the right to subjective assessments, political, religious and other views and no one, at least within civil society, can and should not prevent him/her from publicly professing them, declaring them and being guided by them when preparing his/her materials.
Of course, in addition to genre types, journalism is subdivided into fields according to the specifics of the media – print, radio, television, or the Internet.
But dividing journalists only by their technological specialization, while claiming that thematic areas of journalistic activity are less significant, is like classifying people not by their level of education, their fields of interest or the strength of their intellect, but by whether they drive a car, ride a bicycle or walk.
Religious journalism can be represented in all technological branches of journalistic activity, and the principles of revealing the content and issues of religious journalism are universal for print media, radio, television, and the Internet.
Independent journalism is oriented to information activities within an open or at least democratic society that professes the principles of publicity of socially significant information, independence of expert judgments, and obligatory presentation of different points of view.
Corporate journalism – defending the interests of the corporations on whose behalf the journalist or media outlet acts. It does not necessarily act in accordance with the principles of an open society. A journalist acting on behalf of a corporation or within the framework of corporate ethics has the right (and sometimes the obligation) to speak out and attempt to influence public opinion in accordance with the interests of the corporation on whose behalf he or she speaks.
Corporations can be of many different types – economic, social, political, religious, etc. By corporation we mean a non-state community united by a common goal, a strategy of action in the world external to the corporation, a name (brand) and management, which, as a rule, is centralized. The internal life of corporations is built according to the principles of role management. The members of a corporation are so either for worldview reasons or because of economic interests.