Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the "news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree of accuracy. The word, a noun, applies to the occupation (professional or not), the methods of gathering information, and the organizing literary styles.
The appropriate role for journalism varies from country to country, as do perceptions of the profession, and the resulting status. In some nations, the news media are controlled by government and are not independent. In others, news media are independent of the government and operate as private industry. In addition, countries may have differing implementations of laws handling the freedom of speech, freedom of the press as well as slander and libel cases. Additionally, many academics have researched the role of journalism in the proliferation of globalisation, contributing to a more interconnected 'world as one.'
In recent years, the rise of the internet and online media has significantly shifted how people consume information, with an increasing preference for digital sources. In some regions, this shift has even led to the complete disappearance of traditional print newspapers.
The proliferation of the Internet and smartphones has brought significant changes to the media landscape since the turn of the 21st century. This has created a shift in the consumption of print media channels, as people increasingly consume news through e-readers, smartphones, and other personal electronic devices, as opposed to the more traditional formats of newspapers, magazines, or television news channels. News organizations are challenged to fully monetize their digital wing, as well as improvise on the context in which they publish in print. Newspapers have seen print revenues sink at a faster pace than the rate of growth for digital revenues. (Full article...)
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The Technique, also known as the "'Nique", is the official student newspaper of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, and has referred to itself as "the South's liveliest college newspaper" since 1945. As of the fall semester of 2011, the Technique has a weekly circulation of 10,000, distributed to numerous locations on the Georgia Tech campus and a handful of locations in the surrounding area. The first issue of the Technique was published on November 17, 1911, and the paper has printed continuously since its founding. The paper publishes weekly throughout the regular school year and primarily covers news, events and issues specific to the Georgia Tech community. In 2004 it was one of 25 collegiate newspapers to receive the Pacemaker award from the Associated Collegiate Press. (Full article...)
Ida Tarbell (November 5, 1857 – January 6, 1944) was an American writer, journalist, biographer and lecturer. One of the leading muckrakers of the Progressive Era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, she pioneered investigative journalism. Her best-known exposé was of the Standard Oil Company, run at the time by oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller. This inspired other journalists to investigate and write about trusts, large businesses that (in the absence of strong antitrust laws in the 19th century) attempted to gain monopolies in various industries. She also wrote biographies of businessmen Elbert Henry Gary, chairman of U.S. Steel, and Owen D. Young, president of General Electric.
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Georg Forster in 1781, age 26 Johann George Adam Forster, also known as Georg Forster (German: [ˈɡeːɔʁk ˈfɔʁstɐ]; 27 November 1754 – 10 January 1794), was a German-Polish geographer, naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist and revolutionary. At an early age, he accompanied his father, Johann Reinhold Forster, on several scientific expeditions, including James Cook's second voyage to the Pacific. His report of that journey, A Voyage Round the World, contributed significantly to the ethnology of the people of Polynesia and remains a respected work. As a result of the report, Forster, who was admitted to the Royal Society at the early age of twenty-two, came to be considered one of the founders of modern scientific travel literature.
After returning to continental Europe, Forster turned toward academia. He taught natural history at the Collegium Carolinum in the Ottoneum, Kassel (1778–84), and later at the Academy of Vilna (Vilnius University) (1784–87). In 1788, he became head librarian at the University of Mainz. Most of his scientific work during this time consisted of essays on botany and ethnology, but he also prefaced and translated many books about travel and exploration, including a German translation of Cook's diaries. (Full article...)
The following are images from various journalism-related articles on Wikipedia.
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Image 1Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz in its Hebrew and English editions (from Newspaper)
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Image 2Soldiers in an East German tank unit reading about the erection of the Berlin Wall in 1961 in Neues Deutschland (from Newspaper)
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Image 3International newspapers on sale in Paris (from Newspaper)
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Image 4In Migrant Mother (1936) Dorothea Lange produced the seminal image of the Great Depression. The FSA also employed several other photojournalists to document the depression. (from Photojournalism)
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Image 5Title page of Johann Carolus' Relation from 1609, the first newspaper (from Newspaper)
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Image 6Barricades on rue Saint-Maur (1848), the first photo used to illustrate a newspaper story (from Photojournalism)
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Image 8Abzas Media's editor-in-chief Sevinj Vagifgizi was sentenced to 9 years in prison in June 2025. (from Freedom of the press)
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Image 9A newspaper press in Limoges, France (from Newspaper)
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Image 10Canadian politician Andrew Scheer being interviewed in a scrum, 2017 (from Freedom of the press)
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Image 112025 World Press Freedom Index Good: 85–100 points Satisfactory: 70–85 points Problematic: 55–70 points Difficult: 40–55 points Very serious <40 points Not classified (from Freedom of the press)
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Image 12Fanciful drawing of a general store by Marguerite Martyn in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on October 21, 1906. On the far left, a group of men share reading a newspaper. (from Newspaper)
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Image 13Josef Danhauser's portrait Newspaper readers, 1840 (from Newspaper)
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Image 14Mexican journalist Rubén Espinosa was murdered, along with four women, in Mexico City after fleeing death threats in Veracruz. (from Freedom of the press)
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Image 15The Telegraph printing house in Macon, Georgia, c. 1876 (from Newspaper)
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Image 16Roger Fenton's Photographic Van, 1855, formerly a wine merchant's wagon; his assistant is pictured at the front. (from Photojournalism)
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Image 17The office building of Tyrvään Sanomat in Sastamala, Finland (from Newspaper)
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Image 19Georgiy Gongadze, Ukrainian journalist, founder of a popular Internet newspaper Ukrainska Pravda, who was kidnapped and murdered in 2000 (from Freedom of the press)
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Image 20"Geronimo's camp before surrender to General Crook, March 27, 1886: Geronimo and Natches mounted; Geronimo's son (Perico) standing at his side holding baby." By C. S. Fly. (from Photojournalism)
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Image 21A newsboy selling the Toronto Telegram in Canada in 1905 (from Newspaper)
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Image 22The editorial staff of Severnyi Kray in Yaroslavl, Russia in 1900 (from Newspaper)
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Image 23Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was a journalist and critic but was murdered by the Saudi Government. (from Freedom of the press)
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Image 24Newspaper vendor, Paddington, London, February 2005 (from Newspaper)
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Image 25Cumhuriyet's former editor-in-chief Can Dündar receiving the 2015 Reporters Without Borders Prize. Shortly after, he was arrested. (from Freedom of the press)
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Image 26Newspaper and advertisement, Argentina (from Newspaper)
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Image 28The Crawlers, London, 1876–1877, a photograph from John Thomson's Street Life in London photo-documentary (from Photojournalism)
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Image 29News set for WHIO-TV in Dayton, Ohio. News anchors often report from sets such as this, located in or near the newsroom. (from News presenter)
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Image 30Leica 1, (1925)'s introduction marked the beginning of modern photojournalism. (from Photojournalism)
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Image 31Front page of the newspaper The New York Times on Armistice Day, 1918 (from Newspaper)
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Image 32The Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung pioneered modern photojournalism and was widely copied. Pictured, the cover of issue of 26 August 1936: a meeting between Francisco Franco and Emilio Mola. (from Photojournalism)
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Image 33Protest outside the Russian Embassy in Berlin demanding the release of Russia's political prisoners, including journalists Ivan Safronov and Maria Ponomarenko, 2024 (from Freedom of the press)
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Image 34Sports photojournalists at Indianapolis Motor Speedway (from Photojournalism)
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Image 35Presenters of Colombian news program Noticieros de Colombia (from News presenter)
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Image 36First page of John Milton's 1644 edition of Areopagitica (from Freedom of the press)
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Image 37Front page of the Helsingin Sanomat ( Helsinki Times) on July 7, 1904 (from Newspaper)
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Image 38Freedom of the Press status 2017 (from Freedom of the press)
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Image 39Joseph Goebbels' Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda was a driving force of suppressing freedom of the press in Nazi Germany. (from Freedom of the press)
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Image 41The Statute was adopted as the constitution of the Kingdom of Italy, granting freedom of the press. (from Freedom of the press)
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Image 42The newsroom of Gazeta Lubuska in Zielona Góra, Poland (from Newspaper)
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Image 43Photojournalists at the 2016 Labour Party Conference in Liverpool (from Photojournalism)
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Image 44Photo and broadcast journalists interviewing government official after a building collapse (from Broadcast journalism)
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Image 45US newspaper advertising revenue—Newspaper Association of America published data (from Newspaper)
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Image 46Boy destroying piano at Pant-y-Waen, South Wales, by Philip Jones Griffiths, 1961 (from Photojournalism)
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Image 47The data-driven journalism process (from Data journalism)
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Image 48Al Jazeera's Gaza correspondent Hossam Shabat was assassinated by the IDF on 24 March 2025. (from Freedom of the press)
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Image 491938 Dutch newspaper advertisement for women's clothing sold at C&A stores (from Newspaper)
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Image 50A journalist works on location at the Loma Prieta Earthquake in San Francisco's Marina District October 1989. (from Broadcast journalism)
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Image 51Belarusian journalist Katsyaryna Andreeva was sentenced to 8 years in prison in 2022. (from Freedom of the press)
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Image 52Yomiuri Shimbun, a broadsheet in Japan credited with having the largest newspaper circulation in the world (from Newspaper)
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Image 53Entertainment reporter A. J. Calloway interviewing Eric McCormack at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Knife Fight (from Entertainment journalism)
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