Keywords: Political behavior, participation and culture

The research examines and highlights incidence of press freedom violations in Egypt in the last two years (2013-2014). The article explores how the changing nature of journalists’ safety affects the profession, the way it is perceived by personnel, the roles played by journalists, and autonomy of journalists. It proposes that the increasing incidents of violation against journalists are disrupting the established professional status, roles, and practices of journalists, and removed professional control that was supposed to exist. The main research goal is to map the journalistic role performance nationally in Egypt, by understanding the different professional role conceptions that have been theoretically and empirically operationalized and validated in comparative contexts in a sample of newspapers Al-Ahram (The Pyramids), Al-Masry Al-Youm (Egyptian Today), Al-Shorouk (The Sun Rise) and Al-Wafd (The Delegation) with national circulation that has been analyzed between the periods of 2012-2013.