Journalism

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Journalism \Jour"nal*ism\, n. [Cf. F. journalisme.]
     [1913 Webster]
     1. The keeping of a journal or diary. [Obs.]
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. 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.
        [1913 Webster +PJC]
  
              Journalism is now truly an estate of the realm.
                                                    --Ed. Rev.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. 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.
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  journalism
       n 1: newspapers and magazines collectively [syn: {news media}, {fourth
            estate}]
       2: the profession of reporting or photographing or editing news
          stories for one of the media

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  73 Moby Thesaurus words for "journalism":
     AP, Associated Press, Fleet Street, Reuters, UPI,
     United Press International, advice, artistry, authorcraft,
     authorship, automatic writing, book publishing,
     broadcast journalism, cacoethes scribendi, communications,
     communications industry, composition, creative writing,
     drama-writing, editorial-writing, essay-writing,
     expository writing, facility in writing, feature-writing,
     fourth estate, graphomania, graphorrhea, graphospasm, inditement,
     information, intelligence, libretto-writing, literary artistry,
     literary composition, literary power, literary production,
     literary talent, magazine publishing, news, news agency,
     news medium, news service, newsiness, newsletter, newsmagazine,
     newspaper, newsworthiness, novel-writing, pen, pencraft,
     playwriting, press association, print medium, public press,
     public print, publishing, publishing industry, radio, ready pen,
     reportage, rewriting, short-story writing, skill with words,
     technical writing, telegraph agency, television, the fourth estate,
     the press, tidings, verse-writing, wire service, word, writing