Journalism
['dʒɜːn(ə)lɪz(ə)m] or ['dʒɝnl'ɪzəm]
Definition
(noun.) the profession of reporting or photographing or editing news stories for one of the media.
(noun.) newspapers and magazines collectively.
Typed by Geraldine--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The keeping of a journal or diary.
(n.) The periodical collection and publication of current news; the business of managing, editing, or writing for, journals or newspapers; as, political journalism.
Checked by Bianca
Examples
- In that subservience, and not in the meddling of Mr. Morgan, is the reason why American journalism is so flaccid, so repetitious and so dull. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Thus we say that a man's interest is politics, or journalism, or philanthropy, or archaeology, or collecting Japanese prints, or banking. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The obvious novelties of machinery and locomotion, phonographs and yellow journalism slake the American thirst for creation pretty thoroughly. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- By personal experience, by intimate conversations, and by looking about, I think I am pretty well aware of what the influence of business upon journalism amounts to. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It was because of that that I abandoned journalism, and took to so much duller work: tutoring and private secretaryship. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- And so I have never regretted giving up either diplomacy or journalism--two different forms of the same self-abdication. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- He had passed from the medical school to republican journalism in the days of the Empire. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Politicians tend to live in character, and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism which describes him. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But he thought you rarely cared for journalism written about a country you really knew about and he respected the man for his intentions. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- They do not understand journalism. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A vague common tradition is in the air about us--it expresses itself in journalism, in cheap novels, in the uncritical theater. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Typist: Louis