jour·nal·ism (jûr n -l z m)n. 1. The collecting, writing, editing, and presenting of news or news articles in newspapers and magazines and in radio and television broadcasts. 2. Material written for publication in a newspaper or magazine or for broadcast. 3. The style of writing characteristic of material in newspapers and magazines, consisting of direct presentation of facts or occurrences with little attempt at analysis or interpretation. 4. Newspapers and magazines. 5. An academic course training students in journalism. 6. Written material of current interest or wide popular appeal. |
journalism [ˈdʒɜːnəˌlɪzəm]
n
1. (Communication Arts / Journalism & Publishing) the profession or practice of reporting about, photographing, or editing news stories for one of the mass media
2. (Communication Arts / Journalism & Publishing) newspapers and magazines collectively; the press
3. (Communication Arts / Journalism & Publishing) the material published in a newspaper, magazine, etc. this is badly written journalism
4. (Communication Arts / Journalism & Publishing) news reports presented factually without analysis
journalism
1. the occupation of reporting, writing, editing, photographing, or broadcasting news.
2. the occupation of running a news organization as a business.
3. the press, printed publications, and their employees.
4. an academie program preparing students in reporting, writing, and editing for periodicals and newspapers. — journalist, n. — journalistic, adj.
See also: Media
2. the occupation of running a news organization as a business.
3. the press, printed publications, and their employees.
4. an academie program preparing students in reporting, writing, and editing for periodicals and newspapers. — journalist, n. — journalistic, adj.
ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
| Noun | 1. |  journalism - newspapers and magazines collectivelyprint media - a medium that disseminates printed matter Fleet Street - British journalism photojournalism - journalism that presents a story primarily through the use of pictures copy - material suitable for a journalistic account; "catastrophes make good copy" |
| 2. | journalism - the profession of reporting or photographing or editing news stories for one of the media profession - an occupation requiring special education (especially in the liberal arts or sciences) newspapering - journalism practiced for the newspapers |
journalism
noun
1. the press, newspapers, the papers, news media, Fleet Street (Brit.), the fourth estate He began a career in journalism.
2. reporting, writing, reportage, article writing, feature writing an accomplished piece of investigative journalism
Quotations
"In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation" [Anthony Sampson Anatomy of Britain Today]
"Journalism largely consists in saying `Lord Jones Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive" [G.K. Chesterton The Wisdom of Father Brown]
"Journalism could be described as turning one's enemies into money" [Craig Brown]
"Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read" [Frank Zappa]
"I hope we never see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it" [Will Rogers]
"Four hostile newspapers are to be feared more than a thousand bayonets" [Napoleon Bonaparte]
"Modern journalism....justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest" [Oscar Wilde]
"The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram" [Don Marquis]
"A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself" [Arthur Miller]
"In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation" [Anthony Sampson Anatomy of Britain Today]
"Journalism largely consists in saying `Lord Jones Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive" [G.K. Chesterton The Wisdom of Father Brown]
"Journalism could be described as turning one's enemies into money" [Craig Brown]
"Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read" [Frank Zappa]
"I hope we never see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it" [Will Rogers]
"Four hostile newspapers are to be feared more than a thousand bayonets" [Napoleon Bonaparte]
"Modern journalism....justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest" [Oscar Wilde]
"The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram" [Don Marquis]
"A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself" [Arthur Miller]
Translations
journalism [ˈdʒɜːrnəlɪzəm] n → journalisme m
a brilliant piece of journalism → un admirable travail de journalisme
a brilliant piece of journalism → un admirable travail de journalisme
journalism
n → Journalismus m
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