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jour·nal·ism
(jûr′nə-lĭz′əm)n.
1. The collecting, writing, editing, and presenting of news or news articles.
2. Material written for publication or broadcast as news: "the anonymous journalism he wrote from Washington" (Garry Wills).
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journalism
(ˈdʒɜːnəˌlɪzəm)n
1. (Journalism & Publishing) the profession or practice of reporting about, photographing, or editing news stories for one of the mass media
2. (Journalism & Publishing) newspapers and magazines collectively; the press
3. (Journalism & Publishing) the material published in a newspaper, magazine, etc: this is badly written journalism.
4. (Journalism & Publishing) news reports presented factually without analysis
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jour•nal•ism
(ˈdʒɜr nlˌɪz əm)n.
1. the occupation of gathering, writing, editing, and publishing or broadcasting news.
2. newspapers and magazines; the press.
3. a course of study for a career in journalism.
4. material written for a newspaper or magazine.
5. writing marked by a popular slant.
[1825–35; < French journalisme]
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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: Media2. 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.
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| Noun | 1. | journalism - newspapers and magazines collectively print 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 |
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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]
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Translations
صَحَافَةٌصَحافَه
žurnalistikanovinařina
journalistik
journalismi
novinarstvo
újságírás
blaîamennska
ジャーナリズム
저널리즘
žurnalistika
novinarstvo
journalistik
วารสารศาสตร์
nghề báo
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
journalism
[ˈdʒɜːrnəlɪzəm] n → journalisme ma brilliant piece of journalism → un admirable travail de journalisme
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
journalism
n → Journalismus m
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
journal
(ˈdʒəːnl) noun1. a magazine or other regularly published paper (eg of a society). the British Medical Journal.
2. a diary giving an account of each day's activities.
ˈjournalism noun the business of running, or writing for, newspapers or magazines.
ˈjournalist noun a writer for a newspaper, magazine etc.
ˌjournaˈlistic adjective (of style of writing) like that of a journalist, colourful and racy.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
journalism
→ صَحَافَةٌ žurnalistika journalistik Journalismus δημοσιογραφία periodismo journalismi journalisme novinarstvo giornalismo ジャーナリズム 저널리즘 journalistiek journalisme dziennikarstwo jornalismo журналистика journalistik วารสารศาสตร์ gazetecilik nghề báo 新闻业Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009