journalism

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
journalism
    n 1: newspapers and magazines collectively [syn: {journalism},
         {news media}]
    2: the profession of reporting or photographing or editing news
       stories for one of the media
    
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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