Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The collecting, writing, editing, and presenting of news or news articles.
- noun Material written for publication or broadcast as news.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The business of a journalist; the occupation of writing for, editing, or producing a newspaper or public journal; the diffusion of intelligence or of opinions by means of journals or newspapers and periodicals.
- noun The keeping of a journal; the practice of journalizing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The keeping of a journal or diary.
- noun The periodical collection and publication of current news; the business of managing, editing, or writing for, journals, newspapers, magazines, broadcasting media such as radio or television, or other news media such as distribution over the internet.
- noun The branch of knowledge that studies phenomena associated with news collection, distribution, and editing; a course of study, especially in institutions of higher learning, that teaches students how to write, edit, or report news.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The activity or profession of being a
journalist . - noun The aggregating, writing, editing, and presenting of
news or news articles for widespread distribution, typically inperiodical print publications andbroadcast news media, for the purpose of informing the audience. - noun The style of writing characteristic of material in periodical print publications and broadcast news media, consisting of direct presentation of facts or events with an attempt to minimize analysis or interpretation.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun newspapers and magazines collectively
- noun the profession of reporting or photographing or editing news stories for one of the media
Etymologies
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Examples
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A conservative activist with a hidden video camera set out to embarrass ACORN -- and succeeded -- and a chain reaction was set off led by a brand of journalism known as \ "advocacy journalism\" which does not purport to be objective.
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I’d submit my coverage of the ICCC events as good journalism - not out of ego but because I was told after the March NYC event that your humble correspondent did the best **journalism** of anyone there, even better than the supposedly professional journalists.
Yes, We Are Activists At RedState. So Is “Talking Points Memo” - Dan_McLaughlin’s blog - RedState 2009
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In a post called “Product v. process journalism: The myth of perfection v. beta culture“, he likens the type of ‘journalism‘ that takes place in the blogosphere to a sort of public beta, where bloggers publish what they know or think they know first and in turn receive help from the community in filling in the details.
Product v. process journalism: The myth of perfection v. beta culture « BuzzMachine 2009
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In 1949 he earned his bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri and moved to California in 1951.
Feb. 25th, 2009 - Issue 0.039 z0mbieastronaut 2009
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In 1949 he earned his bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri and moved to California in 1951.
Issue 0.039 z0mbieastronaut 2009
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True fair-and-balanced to coin a phrase journalism presents facts concerning news stories and all opposing angles when the story in question might have more than one side.
Bill Swadley: Reality Has a Liberal Bias Bill Swadley 2011
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True fair-and-balanced to coin a phrase journalism presents facts concerning news stories and all opposing angles when the story in question might have more than one side.
Bill Swadley: Reality Has a Liberal Bias Bill Swadley 2011
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She went on to earn a degree in journalism from the University of Idaho in 1987, coming back to Alaska to be a sports commentator in Anchorage.
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I forgot that accuracy in journalism is for the old farts and the little people, not someone who's as cool and hip and edgy as you. ericacbarnett
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One of the biggest things in journalism is to be objective.
Notah Begay brings unique Tiger Woods perspective to Golf Channel 2010
gangerh commented on the word journalism
The arts babblative and scribblative.
Thank you Robert Southey.
February 21, 2008