Abstract
The 21st century is the century of globalization: economic, technological, cultural, and communication. New technologies, the information revolution are the most important components of this process, the engine of the development of modern society. Currently, there is a digitalization of all aspects of human activity. First of all, it concerns the mass media. The 21st century has created a new information space, a new media sphere, where the transformation of modern journalism is taking place under the influence of digital technologies, which is becoming convergent, multimedia. The methods of training journalists, media industry specialists are changing, new disciplines are being introduced that meet the increased requirements of the time. The media segmentation has increased: new network, television and radio formats have appeared, new genres have increased, the influx of diverse information in different types of communication has increased many times. The model of communication interaction is changing, social communications have appeared, the possibilities of the masses of communication have increased: interactivity, multimedia, personalization of information, globalization, hypertexts, responsiveness, mobility, multifunctionality. The Internet, new media and new digital technology have revolutionized the educational process of training future journalists at the Kazakh National University named after Al-Farabi. Disciplines corresponding to the new era of the digital age began to appear, such as: "New Media", "Converged Journalism", "Internet Journalism", "Modern Media Technologies", "Multimedia Journalism", "Audiovisual and Digital Media", "Media Literacy", "Data-journalism" and others.