Journalism Under Conditions of Protracted Conflict

This publication examines the transformation of journalism and public communication under conditions of a protracted armed conflict, with particular attention to audience fatigue, the normalization of war in everyday media consumption, and the emergence of a systemic crisis of meaning in the public sphere. The article treats prolonged conflict not as a continuation of an emergency phase, but as a distinct structural condition that reshapes media practices, narrative strategies, and the limits of analytical journalism. The article was originally published in Interview Ukraine, No. 5–2023 (May 2023), as a reporter-style analytical study focused on the third year of the armed conflict between the Russian Federation and Ukraine. Due to its interdisciplinary relevance to media studies, political communication, and the sociology of conflict, it was subsequently republished in the International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research, Volume 4, Issue 2 (2023). The version deposited in Zenodo is presented as an author-archived publication intended to ensure long-term academic accessibility and international citation. The content, structure, and analytical logic of the article correspond to the original published versions and have not been substantively modified.