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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.

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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Nouvelles Extraordinaires de Divers Endroits (English: "Extraordinary News from Various Places") or Gazette de Leyde (Gazette of Leiden) was the most important newspaper of record of the international European newspapers of the late 17th to the late 18th century. In the last few decades of the 18th century it was one of the main political newspapers in the Western world.

It was published in French in Leiden, Netherlands. At that time the Netherlands enjoyed a significant freedom of the press. Its circulation likely exceeded 10,000, and it may have reached even up to 100,000. (Full article...)
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William Safire
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President George W. Bush presents William Safire with the 2006 Presidential Medal of Freedom. Safire (born December 17, 1929) is an American author, semi-retired columnist, and former journalist and presidential speechwriter. He is perhaps best known as a long-time syndicated political columnist for The New York Times and a regular contributor to "On Language" in the New York Times Magazine, a column on popular etymology, new or unusual usages, and other language-related topics.

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Ida Minerva Tarbell (November 5, 1857 – January 6, 1944) was an American writer, investigative journalist, biographer and lecturer. She was one of the leading muckrakers and reformers of the Progressive Era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was a pioneer of investigative journalism.

Born in Pennsylvania at the beginning of the oil boom, Tarbell is best known for her 1904 book The History of the Standard Oil Company. The book was first published as a series of articles in McClure's from 1902 to 1904. It has been called a "masterpiece of investigative journalism", by historian J. North Conway, as well as "the single most influential book on business ever published in the United States" by historian Daniel Yergin. The work contributed to the dissolution of the Standard Oil monopoly and helped usher in the Hepburn Act of 1906, the Mann-Elkins Act, the creation of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and the passage of the Clayton Antitrust Act. (Full article...)
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  • Newspaper vendor, Paddington, London, February 2005 (from Newspaper)
  • Mexican journalist Rubén Espinosa was murdered, along with four women, in Mexico City after fleeing death threats in Veracruz. (from Freedom of the press)
  • The Crawlers, London, 1876–1877, a photograph from John Thomson's Street Life in London photo-documentary (from Photojournalism)
  • Boy destroying piano at Pant-y-Waen, South Wales, by Philip Jones Griffiths, 1961 (from Photojournalism)
  • The data-driven journalism process. (from Data journalism)
  • News 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)
  • In 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)
  • Turkish journalists protesting imprisonment of their colleagues on Human Rights Day, 10 December 2016 (from Freedom of the press)
  • Freedom of the Press status 2017. (from Freedom of the press)
  • The Statute was adopted as the constitution of the Kingdom of Italy, granting freedom of the press. (from Freedom of the press)
  • Cumhuriyet's former editor-in-chief Can Dündar receiving the 2015 Reporters Without Borders Prize. Shortly after, he was arrested. (from Freedom of the press)
  • Joseph 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)
  • Soldiers in an East German tank unit reading about the erection of the Berlin Wall in 1961 in Neues Deutschland (from Newspaper)
  • International newspapers on sale in Paris (from Newspaper)
  • The editorial staff of Severnyi Kray in Yaroslavl, Russia in 1900 (from Newspaper)
  • Photograph of a National Guardsman looking over the Washington Monument in Washington D.C., on January 21, 2021, the day after the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States (from Photojournalism)
  • First page of John Milton's 1644 edition of Areopagitica (from Freedom of the press)
  • Newspaper and advertisement, Argentina (from Newspaper)
  • Brian Williams interviews Mitt Romney on July 25, 2012, during Romney's presidential campaign. (from News presenter)
  • Georgiy Gongadze, Ukrainian journalist, founder of a popular Internet newspaper Ukrainska Pravda, who was kidnapped and murdered in 2000. (from Freedom of the press)
  • A girl reading a 21 July 1969 copy of The Washington Post reporting on the Apollo 11 Moon landing (from Newspaper)
  • Leica 1, (1925)'s introduction marked the beginning of modern photojournalism. (from Photojournalism)
  • A journalist works on location at the Loma Prieta Earthquake in San Francisco's Marina District October 1989. (from Broadcast journalism)
  • A newsboy selling the Toronto Telegram in Canada in 1905 (from Newspaper)
  • Fanciful 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)
  • Front page of The New York Times on Armistice Day, 1918 (from Newspaper)
  • Roger Fenton's Photographic Van, 1855, formerly a wine merchant's wagon; his assistant is pictured at the front. (from Photojournalism)
  • The 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)
  • Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was a journalist and critic but was murdered by the Saudi Government. (from Freedom of the press)
  • The office building of Tyrvään Sanomat in Sastamala, Finland (from Newspaper)
  • The newsroom of Gazeta Lubuska in Zielona Góra, Poland (from Newspaper)
  • Newspaper Ora, in 1999, cover page (from Freedom of the press)
  • 2023 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)
  • Yomiuri Shimbun, a broadsheet in Japan credited with having the largest newspaper circulation in the world (from Newspaper)
  • A newspaper press in Limoges, France (from Newspaper)
  • Barricades on rue Saint-Maur (1848), the first photo used to illustrate a newspaper story (from Photojournalism)
  • Front page of the Helsingin Sanomat (Helsinki Times) on July 7, 1904 (from Newspaper)
  • Sports photojournalists at Indianapolis Motor Speedway (from Photojournalism)
  • Photo and broadcast journalists interviewing government official after a building collapse (from Broadcast journalism)
  • Title page of Johann Carolus' Relation from 1609, the first newspaper (from Newspaper)
  • Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz in its Hebrew and English editions (from Newspaper)
  • Josef Danhauser's portrait Newspaper readers, 1840 (from Newspaper)
  • "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)
  • Photojournalists at the 2016 Labour Party Conference in Liverpool (from Photojournalism)
  • The Telegraph printing house in Macon, Georgia, c. 1876 (from Newspaper)
  • Entertainment reporter A. J. Calloway interviewing Eric McCormack at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Knife Fight (from Entertainment journalism)

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  1. Canadian Library Journal, Canadian Library Association, v. 27, 1992. Digitized Dec 27, 2007 from the University of California.
  2. Murphy, Lawrence William. "An Introduction to Journalism: Authoritative Views on the Profession", 1930. T. Nelson and sons Journalism. Original from the University of California. Digitized Oct 23, 2007.
  3. "WAN - Newspapers: 400 Years Young!". Wan-press.org. Archived from the original on 2010-03-10. Retrieved 2012-02-21.
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