Journalism is defined as a profession in which news is prepared and distributed on a variety of platforms to the general public. These platforms include broadcast media, newspapers, magazines, journals, news sites, etc. Journalism in essence should be factual with evidence to back the piece up,...
News is the reporting of current events usually by local, regional or mass media in the form of newspapers, television and radio programs, or sites on the World Wide Web. News reporting is a type of journalism, typically written or broadcast in news style. Most news is investigat...
In journalism (and more specifically, the mass media), sensationalism is a type of editorial tactic. ... This styleof news reporting encourages biased or emotionally loaded impressions of events rather than neutrality, and may cause a manipulation to the truth of a story. What is an example o...
Journalism is not only an academic course training students in journalism,but the practice of investigation and reporting of events,issues and trends to a broad audience in a timely fashion.Though there are many variation...
Is it really news reporting? Or could it be opinion, raw information, advertising, propaganda, or something else? It’s not always obvious. To determine the type of information you’re looking at, it’s helpful to identify its primary purpose. The primary purpose of journalism is to inform...
(The following article is taken from the U.S. Department of State publication,Handbook of Independent Journalism.) By Deborah Potter The answer to the question “What is news?” may seem obvious. News is what is new; it’s what’s happening. Look it up in the dictionary, and you’ll ...
You go back and look at those things, I mean the word yellow journalism, although it came out of a comic strip, came to speak about a whole generation of papers that were untrustworthy, in which you couldn’t tell the difference between an advertisement and news and a good part of the...
The article discusses how the increasing use of social media like Twitter affects journalism. The differences between news reporting and the use of social media are stated which include the use of words that were once forbidden. Particular focus is given on the value of newsworthiness and how ...
With all the technology that exists today, it's easy for any person (whether trained or not in the art of journalism) to post a tweet to twitter, a comment on Facebook, or write a blog that disseminates the "news"; the problem is that the story may not be factual, or adhere to ...
Some critics argue all modern journalism is data journalism. After all, when a news story is printed, it should contain facts and those facts can be quantified as ‘data’. However, the term ‘data journalism’ brings to mind something more than traditional reporting. ...