In the Soviet Socialist Republic of Moldova (SSRM) journalistic higher education appeared in Chişinău in the ‘1960s at the Faculty of Philology from the State University, being conceived both as a vocational and ideological training process. Despite this fact, the journalistic higher education during the Soviet period played a significant role in the subsequent protection of the concept of university training based on new and democratic principles. Between 1966‑1991, many important goals were achieved such as: the conceptualisation of the journalistic teaching process; the establishment of the teaching staff and the intellectualization of the personnel policy in this field; the creation of the journalistic national book collection etc. These aspects laid the foundation for the journalistic contemporary university teaching in the Republic of Moldova, contributing to the creation of its identity and national profile.