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.
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   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]

	

	journalism
     n 1: newspapers and magazines collectively [syn: news media, fourth
          estate]
     2: the profession of reporting or photographing or editing news
        stories for one of the media

	

	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