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Journalism is gathering, processing, and dissemination of news and information related to the news to an
audience. The word applies to both the method of inquiring for news and the literary style which is used to
disseminate it.[1] [2]
1 Forms
In a democratic society, however, access to free information plays a central role in creating a system of checks
and balance, and in distributing power equally amongst
governments, businesses, individuals, and other social entities. Access to veriable information gathered by independent media sources, which adhere to journalistic standards, can also be of service to ordinary citizens, by empowering them with the tools they need in order to participate in the political process.
Photojournalists photographing President Barack Obama
The role and status of journalism, along with that of the
mass media, has undergone profound changes over the
last two decades with the advent of digital technology and
publication of news on the Internet.[4] This has created a
shift in the consumption of print media channels, as people increasingly consume news through e-readers, smartphones, and other electronic devices, challenging news
organizations to fully monetize their digital wing, as well
as improvise on the context in which they publish news in
print. Notably, in the American media landscape, newsrooms have reduced their sta and coverage as traditional
media channels, such as television, grapple with declining
audiences. For instance, between 2007 and 2012, CNN
edited its story packages into nearly half of their original
time length.[5]
3 ROLE
Investigative journalism: the use of investigation on a subject matter while uncovering news events.
Photojournalism: the telling of a story
through its images.
Tabloid journalism writing that is lighthearted and entertaining.
Yellow journalism (or sensationalism)
writing which emphasises exaggerated
claims or rumours.
Shrimp journalism (or shrimping) - to encourage unsubstantiated sports rumours
through social media.
The recent rise of social media has resulted in arguments
to reconsider journalism as a process rather than attributing it to particular news products. From this perspective,
journalism is participatory, a process distributed among
multiple authors and involving journalists as well as the
socially mediating public.[10]
History
Role
3.1
Elements
John Dewey
But Lippmann turned against what he called the collectivism of the Progressive movement he encouraged with
its de-emphasis on the foundations of American politics
and government and ultimately wrote a work, The Public Philosophy (1955), which came very close to a return
to the principles of the American founders.
Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel propose several guidelines for journalists in their book The Elements of Journalism.[13] Because journalisms rst loyalty is to the citizenry, journalists are obliged to tell the truth and must
serve as an independent monitor of powerful individuals
and institutions within society. The essence of journalism
is to provide citizens with reliable information through
the discipline of verication.
Such a code of conduct can, in the real world, be dicult to uphold consistently. Reporting and editing do not
occur in a vacuum but always reect the political context
in which journalists, no less than other citizens, operate.
Journalists who believe they are being fair or objective
may give biased accountsby reporting selectively, trusting too much to anecdote, or giving a partial explanation
of actions. Even in routine reporting, bias can creep into
a story through a reporters choice of facts to summarize,
or through failure to check enough sources, hear and report dissenting voices, or seek fresh perspectives. A 2011
study of journalism in online video found that although
most news videos adhere to traditional production practices (e.g. editing and audio quality), they tended to use
more relaxed standards for content (e.g., use of sources,
fairness). Videos using these more relaxed standards received more views.[24]
A news organizations budget inevitably reects decisionmaking about what news to cover, for what audience, and
in what depth. Those decisions may reect conscious or
unconscious bias. When budgets are cut, editors may sacrice reporters in distant news bureaus, reduce the numSome journalistic Codes of Ethics, notably the Euro- ber of sta assigned to low-income areas, or wipe entire
pean ones,[18] also include a concern with discriminatory communities from the publications zone of interest.
references in news based on race, religion, sexual orientation, and physical or mental disabilities.[19][20][21][22] Publishers, owners and other corporate executives, esThe Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe pecially advertising sales executives, can try to use their
approved in 1993 Resolution 1003 on the Ethics of powers over journalists to inuence how news is reported
Journalism which recommends journalists to respect the and published. Journalists usually rely on top managepresumption of innocence, in particular in cases that are ment to create and maintain a rewall between the news
and other departments in a news organization to prevent
still sub judice.[23]
undue inuence on the news department. One journalIn the UK, all newspapers are bound by the Code of Prac- ism magazine, Columbia Journalism Review, has made it
tice of the Press Complaints Commission.This includes
a practice to reveal examples of executives who try to inpoints like respecting peoples privacy and ensuring ac- uence news coverage, of executives who do not abuse
curacy. However, the Media Standards Trust has crititheir powers over journalists, and of journalists who recised the PCC, claiming it needs to be radically changed sist such pressures.
to secure public trust of newspapers.
Because of the need to please many dierent and someThis is in stark contrast to the media climate prior to the times powerful audiences, journalists often make a blan20th century, where the media market was dominated by ket claim to objectivity, even neutrality, which convesmaller newspapers and pamphleteers who usually had an niently coincides with the requirements of the market.
overt and often radical agenda, with no presumption of Although some analysts point to the inherent diculty
balance or objectivity.
of maintaining objectivity, and others practically deny
Because of the pressure on journalists report news that it is possible, still others point to the requirements
promptly and before their competitors, factual errors oc- of a free press in a democratic society governed by public
cur more frequently than in writing produced and edited opinion and a republican government under a limited conunder less time pressure. Thus a typical issue of a ma- stitution; leaving out key information too often happens.
jor daily newspaper may contain several corrections of According to this latter view, direct or implicit criticism
articles published the previous day. Perhaps the most fa- of the government, political parties, corporations, unions,
mous journalistic mistake caused by time pressure was schools and colleges and even churches is both inevitable
the Dewey Defeats Truman edition of the Chicago Daily and desirable, and cannot be done well without clarity
Tribune, based on early election returns that failed to an- regarding fundamental political principles. Hence, ob-
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jectivity consists both in truthful, accurate reporting and
well-reasoned and thoughtful commentary, based upon a
rm commitment to a free societys principles of equality,
liberty and government by consent.
6 See also
Lists of journalists
Citizen Journalism
Creative nonction
Hallins spheres
History of American newspapers
Journalists at a press conference
tices towards journalists, which control what they can research and write, and what press organizations can publish. Some governments guarantee the freedom of the
press; while other nations severely restrict what journalists can research or publish.
Journalists in many nations have some privileges that
members of the general public do not, including better
access to public events, crime scenes and press conferences, and to extended interviews with public ocials,
celebrities and others in the public eye.
History of journalism
Journalism education and Journalism school
Journalism ethics and standards
Journalism genres
Non-prot journalism
Objectivity (journalism)
Reporters without borders
SEEMO
5.1
7 References
7.1 Notes
Journalists interaction with sources sometimes involves
condentiality, an extension of freedom of the press giving journalists a legal protection to keep the identity of
a condential informant private even when demanded by
EXTERNAL LINKS
[21] (Spanish) Spain FAPEs Cdigo Deontolgico (Deontological Code) (see Principios Generales, item 7, a)
technology.
[23] PACE Resolution 1003 (1993) on the Ethics of Journalism (see clause 22)
and
7.2 Sources
Harcup, Tony (2009), Journalism: Principles and
Practice, Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications, ISBN 978-1847872500, OCLC 280437077
8 Further reading
Encyclopedia of journalism, ed. by Christopher H.
Sterling, Thousand Oaks, Calif. [etc.] : SAGE,
2009, 6 vls.
Kristina Borjesson (ed.): Into the Buzzsaw. Leading
Journalists expose The Myth of a Free Press, New
York: Prometheus Books, 2002
[13] 19 June 2006 (2006-06-19). The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public
Should Expect Introduction | Project for Excellence in
Journalism (PEJ)". Journalism.org. Archived from the
original on 2 October 2013. Retrieved 2013-02-23.
Maniam, V.S, A Life in Journalism, Yes Dee Publishing Pvt Ltd, 2009, ISBN 9788190844918
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