journalism

/ˌdʒʌrnlˈɪzəm/

/ˈdʒʌnəlɪzəm/

Other forms: journalisms

If your dream job includes writing for a newspaper or interviewing famous people for a magazine, you hope to someday work in the field of journalism.

Working for a radio or TV news show, a magazine, a newspaper, or a news-related website would all be considered journalism. Those jobs might include reporting, writing, editing, photography, or documentary film making. An individual newspaper or magazine is sometimes called a "journal," and the category of these publications is also called journalism. The first newspaper ever published was a German journal printed in Strassburg in 1605, called "Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien."

Definitions of journalism

1. noun

   the profession of reporting or photographing or editing news stories for one of the media
   types:

   newspapering

   journalism practiced for the newspapers

   type of:

   profession

   an occupation requiring special education (especially in the liberal arts or sciences)
2. noun

   newspapers and magazines collectively
   synonyms: news media

   types:

   Fleet Street

   British journalism

   photojournalism

   journalism that presents a story primarily through the use of pictures

   tab, tabloid, yellow journalism

   sensationalist journalism

   news photography

   photography of newsworthy events

   rotogravure

   printed material (text and pictures) produced by an intaglio printing process in a rotary press

   type of:

   print media

   a medium that disseminates printed matter