JOURNALISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does journalism mean? 

• JOURNALISM (noun)
  The noun JOURNALISM has 2 senses:

1. newspapers and magazines collectively

2. the profession of reporting or photographing or editing news stories for one of the media

  Familiarity information: JOURNALISM used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JOURNALISM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Newspapers and magazines collectively

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

journalism; news media

Hypernyms ("journalism" is a kind of...):

print media (a medium that disseminates printed matter)

Meronyms (substance of "journalism"):

copy (material suitable for a journalistic account)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "journalism"):

Fleet Street (British journalism)

photojournalism (journalism that presents a story primarily through the use of pictures)

tab; tabloid; yellow journalism (sensationalist journalism)

Derivation:

journalist (a writer for newspapers and magazines)

journalistic (of or relating to or having the characteristics of journalism)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The profession of reporting or photographing or editing news stories for one of the media

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("journalism" is a kind of...):

profession (an occupation requiring special education (especially in the liberal arts or sciences))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "journalism"):

newspapering (journalism practiced for the newspapers)

Derivation:

journalist (a writer for newspapers and magazines)

journalistic (of or relating to or having the characteristics of journalism)

 Context examples 

You could rise in journalism and make a name for yourself.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"You believe that I have some show in journalism but none in literature?"

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It chanced that a cub reporter sat in the audience, detailed there on a day dull of news and impressed by the urgent need of journalism for sensation.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The none too savory ramifications by which Ella Kaye, the newspaper woman, played Madame de Maintenon to his weakness and sent him to sea in a yacht, were common knowledge to the turgid journalism of 1902.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)