'Journalism' definitions:
Definition of 'journalism'
(from WordNet)
noun
Newspapers and magazines collectively [syn: journalism, news media]
noun
The profession of reporting or photographing or editing news stories for one of the media
Definition of 'Journalism'
From: 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]
Synonyms of 'journalism'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- advice,
- AP,
- artistry,
- Associated Press,
- 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,
- Fleet Street,
- 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,
- Reuters,
- rewriting,
- short-story writing,
- skill with words,
- technical writing,
- telegraph agency,
- television,
- the fourth estate,
- the press,
- tidings,
- United Press International,
- UPI,
- verse-writing,
- wire service,
- word,
- writing