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Journalism

From The SAGE Glossary of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
A profession whose purpose is to communicate information, analysis, commentary, and entertainment to the public. The work carried out by reporters, editors, photographers, videographers, publishers, and producers involves collecting, preparing, and distributing news or current events of public interest via a variety of media. The products of journalism are generally frequently published periodicals including newspapers, consumer and trade magazines, television, radio, pamphlets, newsletters, film, books, and the World Wide Web. While the industry was closely associated with newspapers for centuries, it is now just as commonly associated with the electronic media. Journalistic censorship involves the restriction, suppression, or altering of writing, speech, ideas, or opinions and can occur either before publication or broadcast (preemptive) or afterward (punitive). Those who seek to censor may do so because they find the words or speech to be morally, politically, or otherwise…
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Journalism refers to the practice of the radio reporter in gathering and presenting news and comment . Radio journalism is not fundamentally different from news gathering in other media; in fact many journalists write for newspapers as well as working for either radio or television, or both. The age…
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From Key Concepts in Public Relations
Journalism is not considered to be much of a job: even by journalists! Distinguished editor H.L. Mencken described it as 'a craft to be mastered in 4 days and abandoned at the first sign of a better job' ( Delano, 2000 : 261). Ernest Hemingway, who worked as a reporter for the Kansas City Star in…
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From Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Political Thought
The production of news and comment for widespread publication. The issue of the freedom of the press (and by implication of the media generally) is one that journalism, the express purpose of which is one of communication , irrespective of literary, scientific or any other merit, raises in its…
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From Dictionary of Media and Communication Studies
While many professions feature in the public eye, journalism can be said to be the public eye. Journalism reports to the public, conveying to it information, analysis, comment and entertainment while equally purporting to represent the public; to speak for it in the public arena. At the same time…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
the collection and periodic publication or transmission of news through media such as newspaper , periodical , television , and radio . The importance of journalism in modern society has been testified to by the establishment of schools of journalism at most of the world's leading universities. The…
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From Encyclopedia of Ethics
Journalism has been slower than law and medicine to develop a set of guidelines or even a dialogue on the ethical issues its practitioners confront. Perhaps that is because journalism, like business, is not among the professions as traditionally conceived. In any case, as the role of the MASS MEDIA…
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Full text Article Journalism: data journalism

From Dictionary of Media and Communication Studies
That which focuses on delving into statistical data to produce news stories, and with a view to holding governments, organizations, institutions and local authorities to account. An outstanding example of this was the revelation over months, in 2009–10, by the UK Daily Telegraph of the widespread…
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Full text Article Journalism: citizen journalism

From Dictionary of Media and Communication Studies
With the advent of the multifunctional mobile phone, the iPad, the email, the online text, new technology plays a key role in contemporary newsgathering and transmission, encouraging what has been termed ‘street’ or ‘participatory’ journalism. Commentators have seen in its rapid growth, and its link…
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From Encyclopedia of Free Blacks and People of Color in the Americas
The barriers to launching a career in journalism were remarkably low in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The population was increasingly literate, even in the free colored community. Most countries had much poorer literacy rates for free blacks when compared to whites, though few went so far…
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From Encyclopedia of the American Indian in the Twentieth Century
At the start of the 20th century, Indian Territory, now the state of Oklahoma, was already a hotbed of Indian journalism. The Cherokee alone had more than half a dozen newspapers, most printed in both Cherokee and English. In the early 20th century, the official Cherokee newspaper was the venerated…
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