Journalist

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For other uses, see Journalist (disambiguation). Journalist Heinz Abel, left, conducting an interview for German television. Topics in journalism Professionalissues

News • Reportage • Writing • Ethics • Objectivity • Values • Attribution • Defamation • Editorial independence • Education • Other topics

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Advocacy journalism
Citizen journalism
Civic journalism
Community journalism
Gonzo journalism
Investigative journalism
Literary journalism
Narrative journalism
New Journalism
Opinion journalism
Visual journalism
Watchdog journalism

Social impact

Fourth Estate
Fifth Estate
Freedom of the press
Infotainment
Media bias
News propaganda
Public relations
Yellow journalism

News media

Newspapers
Magazines
News agencies
Broadcast journalism
Online journalism
Photojournalism
Alternative media

Roles Journalist • Reporter • Editor • Columnist • Commentator • Photographer • News presenter • Meteorologist

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A journalist (also called a newspaperman) is a person who practises journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues and people.

Reporters are one type of journalist. They create reports as a profession for broadcast or publication in mass media such as newspapers, television, radio, magazines, documentary film, and the Internet. Reporters find sources for their work, their reports can be either spoken or written, and they are often expected to report in the most objective and unbiased way to serve the public good. A columnist is a journalist who writes pieces that appear regularly in newspapers or magazines.

Depending on the context, the term journalist also includes various types of editors and visual journalists, such as photographers, graphic artists, and page designers.

Journalists put the information in their own words, making it creative in their own way so it will catch the reader or viewers attention.

1 Origin
2 Modern journalists
3 Ethics in journalism
4 Educating Journalists
5 References
6 External links

Origin

Modern journalists

Modern media, including the creation of Internet-based news sources and the possibility that citizen journalism will greatly expand the field, has made it all but impossible to identify which journalists are notable, in the sense that they could be identified in the past. The global justice protests in Seattle (1999) gave rise to the independent media movement, exemplified by the Indymedia network,[citation needed] a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage.[citation needed]

Ethics in journalism

Main article: Journalism ethics

Most journalists in the United States adhere[citation needed] to the standards and norms expressed in the Society of Professional Journalists ethical code.[1] Foremost in the minds of most practicing journalists is the issue of maintaining credibility, "Professional integrity is the cornerstone of a journalist's credibility."[1]

Educating Journalists

Journalists often either receive training directly in the type of news field that they wish to enter, or through various institutions of higher education. From Columbia University and the University of Florida's College of Journalism and Communications on the East Coast of America, to University of Southern California and California State University, Northridge on the West Coast, there is a broad range of options for beginning journalists to choose from when entering the field.