1) dissemination of information of political significance about facts, phenomena, and processes, as a result of which communication interaction within society along horizontal and vertical lines of communication, as well as interaction with the external environment, is ensured;
2) duplication of political information of protocol character about the everyday functioning of various bodies of executive and representative power, periodic dissemination of information about the activities of the judiciary
3) analysis and commentary on the activities of the branches of power, political parties, movements and separate political individuals in a concrete socio-political situation and during a certain period of their functioning
4) critical-orienting function: a democratic state, is a system of mutual control, and it is the task of the press to look at the state with a critical eye;
5) an agitation-propaganda, explanatory function that ensures the dissemination of information to broad sections of society about the activities, decisions and intentions emerging in political institutions, as well as mobilizing society for their implementation, rallying around a particular political force, a particular politician; in this sense, this purpose of political journalism is derived from the function of social control, understood as the incorporation of journalism into the social management system;
6) providing feedback in the field of politics is another facet of the expression of the social control function in journalism.
Separately, it should be said that political journalism in a democratic society is still seen mainly as the activity of professionals – politicians, journalists, and publicists. The people are still excluded from this activity. Modern democracy goes through a special period when it is promoted as an idea, a model, and a political construct from the environment of professionals (political elite) to the rest of society, which political actors often see as passive and waiting to be rewarded with democracy.
But this is not the case because democracy has to mature in the depths of public life. Political journalism can contribute to this if it becomes a social and political platform for the many and not just for the few. For this to happen, the journalist himself must also change in certain aspects. First of all, the political correspondent and commentator, as a subject of political journalism in a democratic society, cannot help but strive to penetrate into the essence of the facts and phenomena about which he writes.