The interest in journalism in the Balkans, which began with the Crimean War, intensified the efforts to feature the tidings of that region in the printed and visual press. It escalated with the Russo-Turkish war of 1877-78, and peaked with the Balkan War and World War I. This study was intended to present a comparative treatise of the information and documents, reports, diaries and memoirs of the journalists, photographers, war correspondents and soldiers from Europe and even around the world that took part in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78, which made a radical change not only in the Balkans but also in the Caucasus in late 19th century, in order to give an account of the importance of journalism in that period and its impact on the Balkans. The study includes first-hand sources based on comparative analyses and comments, and gives an account of the Balkan region and the war that went on in the north and south of the Danube, based on the Russian newspapers and popular magazines of the time as available in the Finnish National Slavonic Library, interviews with journalists in Bulgarian sources, the effects of the news and journalists in European press on the developments of the time, and memoirs of the Finnish Soldiers, came from Helsinki to the Balkan region, Bucharest, Sofia and Istanbul for a more objective account. This was intended to illustrate the effect of Russia on the Balkans, and how the perspectives of the European states were changed by the propaganda made through the press.
Key words: Journalism, Propaganda, Reminiscences, War Correspondence, War Diaries,
