This issue includes six research articles which cover different topics such as science communication, television studies, social capital, social media and journalism education. For the Dialogue, we invited Prof. Thomas Hanitzsch from LMU Munich, Germany to share his academic trajectory and perspectives and experiences on comparative research and journalism studies. The Communication Forum in this issue is written by Prof. Christine Yi-Hui Huang. Prof. Huang employed a comparative perspective and discussed the disciplinary legitimacy of public relation in mainland China.