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The presentation describes the experience of implementing an in-novative project-based programme Basic Journalism Writing (BJW) designed at the Faculty of Journalism, Moscow State University. The programme guides the learner from meticulously studying and ana-lyzing texts of various journalistic genres to writing their own arti-cles and publishing them in the English-language student-led faculty medium MessAge. The programme combines elements of PBL, CLIL, process and product writing approaches. Keywords: teaching writing, journalistic skills, journalism, professional compe-tence, project-based learning;