Journalism
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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