Professor Thomas Hanitzsch, a leading scholar in the field of comparative journalism studies and initiator-cum-coordinator of the Worlds of Journalism Study project, shares in this dialogue his academic trajectory and views and experiences on comparative journalism research. He discusses how the practices of comparative studies can alleviate the problem of ethnocentrism in journalism and communication studies, and how comparative studies have informed his own conceptual thinking about certain core issues facing the changing field of journalism, such as theorization of journalism culture, typology of journalism's social and professional roles, and the very basic question of definitions of "journalist" and "journalism."