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/dʒˈərnəlˌɪzəm/ Listen

noun

Journalism n.

The keeping of a journal or diary. (Obs.)

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; as, political journalism; broadcast journalism; print journalism. "Journalism is now truly an estate of the realm."

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.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Journalism" Quotes from Famous Books

... pointed out that this would be betraying the woman, and that Jo Hays (her companion) was fully able to take care of himself. "Besides," said the Editor, aggrievedly, "you fellows only think of YOURSELVES, and you don't understand the first principles of journalism. Do you suppose I'm going to do anything to spoil a half-column of leaded brevier copy—from an eye-witness, too? No; it's a square enough fight as it stands. We must look out for the woman, and not let Tournelli get an unfair drop ...

— Colonel Starbottle's Client and Other Stories • Bret Harte

... makes fun of everything and everybody, but at least his articles and letters are always amusing." Thereupon the smiling lady gently stirred her coffee, folded the newspaper to the required place, and proceeded to enjoy Mr. Learned Bore's contribution to the morning journalism. ...

— The Tale of Lal - A Fantasy • Raymond Paton

... colonies; that the editor and owner of a great newspaper should become an ambassador to England, as in the case of Mr. Reid, is impossible in Germany. The character of the men who take up the profession of journalism suffers from the lack of distinction and influence of their task. Raymond, Greeley, Dana, Laffan, Godkin, in America, and Delane, Hutton, Lawson, and their successors, Garvin, Strachey, Robinson, in England, are ...

— Germany and the Germans - From an American Point of View (1913) • Price Collier

... confess about Mabel, but to hold fast to journalism. Then he lay in bed and watched for ...

— Love Stories • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... man prepares himself. He is usually fairly well educated, for not infrequently he started out to study for the law or the ministry and was sidetracked by hard necessity. A few have come into the field from journalism. As a result, the British labor leader has a certain veneer of learning and puts on a more impressive front than the American. For example, Britain has produced Ramsey MacDonald, who writes books and makes speeches ...

— The Armies of Labor - Volume 40 in The Chronicles Of America Series • Samuel P. Orth

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