Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of journalism or journalists.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to journals or newspapers, or to journalism; descriptive or characteristic of journalism or journalists: as, journalistic literature; journalistic enterprise.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Pertaining to journals, journalism, or to journalists; contained in, or characteristic of, the public journals.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective related to journalism or journalists

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or relating to or having the characteristics of journalism

Etymologies

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journal +‎ -istic (“adjective”) – also parsed directly as journalist +‎ -ic (“adjective”), also used in sense of related journalism (having to do with journalism).

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Examples

  • I come at this as a traditional Irish Catholic, not particularly religious but I really wanted to look at what I call a journalistic pilgrimage through the Holy Land.

    CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2002 2002

  • The case was so surrealistic that the novelist Francisco Goldman decided to abandon the magic of fiction and tell this "baroque story of perhaps perverse human passions" in journalistic form in The Art of Political Murder.

    John Feffer: Not-So-Magical Realism John Feffer 2010

  • Schiller says it's important to maintain journalistic objectivity.

    NPR Dismisses News Analyst Juan Williams 2010

  • The case was so surrealistic that the novelist Francisco Goldman decided to abandon the magic of fiction and tell this "baroque story of perhaps perverse human passions" in journalistic form in The Art of Political Murder.

    John Feffer: Not-So-Magical Realism John Feffer 2010

  • These are worthy attributes, and whether their roots are in journalistic discipline or not they serve this unforgettable narrative superbly.

    The Forever War: Summary and book reviews of The Forever War by Dexter Filkins. 2008

  • I had planned to seperate the journalistic from the personal (the good and the bad if you will) later on.

    Your Blog Archives: To Cull or Not to Cull? | Write to Done 2008

  • Although drama and news remained distinct genres with overlapping but divergent modes of staging, the nature of the newspaper medium at that particular moment in journalistic history brought to the fore powerful analogies between the two, with respect to both the physical presentation of events and the way we can experience time as imbued with tension and meaning.

    Introduction 2007

  • Bloggers engaged in journalistic pursuits would be granted immunity from divulging confidential sources under a new bill pending in both chambers of Congress.

    May 7th, 2007 2007

  • "[Nathan] Gardels and [Michael] Medavoy's analysis of Hollywood vs foreign films falls into a common pattern within journalistic writing on entertainment," writes Kristin Thompson.

    GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 2/28. 2007

  • The maddening thing is that, even in journalistic terms - of there being a "good" story buried in here - there is sense in giving these deaths more space.

    A question of values Richard 2006

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