This issue comprises three different sections: an academic dialogue, five research articles, and the ICA annual bilingual paper. For the academic dialogue, Professor Chen Lidan shares his insights on controversies within Marxist ideology regarding the press, news, and communication. The ICA annual bilingual article was written by Professor Jonathan J. H. Zhu. Professor Zhu analyzes over 45,000 research articles in SSCI-Communication journals from 1980 to 2019 and the ranking record of all SSCI in Journal Citation Reports from 1997 to 2018. His research indicates that communication has become one of the fastest growing disciplines in the social sciences and that the market structure of communication research has undergone significant and continuous changes over the past four decades. The marketplace of communication research has become increasingly internationalized, less concentrated, and more collaborative. The five research articles cover different topics, including the impact of popular media criticism on the journalism profession, media interaction in social networks, the impact of social media on intercultural adaptation, and the intermedia agenda for setting and priming effects between traditional and social media.