journalism

English

Etymology

From French journalisme (beginning of 19th century). By surface analysis, journal +‎ -ism.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒəːn(ə)lɪzəm/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɚnl̩ˌɪzəm/
• Hyphenation: jour‧nal‧ism

Noun

journalism (usually uncountable, plural journalisms)

1. The activity or profession of being a journalist.
2. The aggregating, writing, editing, and presenting of news or news articles for widespread distribution, typically in electronic publications and broadcast news media, for the purpose of informing the audience.
3. The style of writing characteristic of material in periodical print publications and broadcast news media, consisting of direct presentation of facts or events with an attempt to minimize analysis or interpretation.

Derived terms

• access journalism
• ambush journalism
• brown envelope journalism
• checkbook journalism
• chequebook journalism
• churnalism
• citizen journalism
• cyberjournalism
• data journalism
• e-journalism
• gonzo journalism
• gotcha journalism
• immersion journalism
• investigative journalism
• jazz journalism
• literary journalism
• New Journalism
• pack journalism
• parajournalism
• people journalism
• photojournalism
• pink-slime journalism
• service journalism
• snippet journalism
• telejournalism
• video journalism
• yellow journalism

Translations

activity or profession of being a journalist

• Afrikaans: joernalistiek
• Albanian: gazetari (sq) f
• Arabic: صِحَافَة f (ṣiḥāfa), صَحَافَة f (ṣaḥāfa)

  Egyptian Arabic: صحافة f (ṣiḥāfa)

• Armenian: լրագրություն (hy) (lragrutʻyun)
• Asturian: periodismu m
• Azerbaijani: jurnalistika
• Belarusian: журналі́стыка f (žurnalístyka)
• Bengali: জার্নালিজম (jarnalijom)
• Breton: kazetennerezh (br) m
• Bulgarian: журнали́стика (bg) f (žurnalístika)
• Burmese: သတင်းစာပညာ (sa.tang:capa.nya)
• Carpathian Rusyn: журналі́стіка f (žurnalístika)
• Catalan: jornalisme (ca) m, periodisme (ca) m
• Cebuano: dyornalismo, peryodismo
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 新聞學 / 新闻学 (zh) (xīnwénxué), 新聞界 / 新闻界 (zh) (xīnwénjiè), 新聞業 / 新闻业 (zh) (xīnwényè), 新聞工作 / 新闻工作 (xīnwén gōngzuò)

• Czech: novinářství n, žurnalistika f
• Danish: journalistik
• Dutch: journalistiek (nl)
• Esperanto: ĵurnalismo
• Estonian: ajakirjandus
• Finnish: journalismi (fi)
• French: journalisme (fr) m
• Galician: periodismo m, xornalismo m
• Georgian: ჟურნალისტიკა (žurnalisṭiḳa)
• German: Journalismus (de) m, Journalistik (de) f
• Greek: δημοσιογραφία (el) f (dimosiografía)
• Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: עיתונאות \ עִתּוֹנָאוּת (he) f (itona'út)
• Hindi: पत्रकारिता f (patrakāritā)
• Hungarian: újságírás (hu)
• Icelandic: blaðamennska f, fréttamennska (is) f
• Ido: jurnalisteso (io)
• Indonesian: jurnalisme (id), kewartawanan (id)
• Italian: giornalismo (it) m
• Japanese: ジャーナリズム (ja) (jānarizumu)
• Kazakh: журналистика (jurnalistika)
• Khmer: វិជ្ជាជីវៈខាងសារព័ត៌មាន (vɨcciəciivĕəʼ khaang saapɔədɑɑmiən)
• Korean: 저널리즘 (jeoneollijeum), 언론학(言論學) (ko) (eollonhak)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: rojnamegerî (ku), rojnamevanî (ku)

• Kyrgyz: журналистика (ky) (jurnalistika)
• Lao: ວາລະສານສາດ (wā la sān sāt)
• Latin: diurnalismus m
• Latvian: žurnālistika f
• Lithuanian: žurnalistika f
• Macedonian: новина́рство n (novinárstvo)
• Malay: kewartawanan
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: сэтгүүл зүй (setgüül züj)

• Norwegian: journalistikk
• Ottoman Turkish: غزته‌جیلق (gazetacılık)
• Pashto: روزنامه نګاري f (roznāmanegārí), ژورناليزم m (žurnalízǝm)
• Persian: ژورنالیسم (fa) (žurnâlisem), روزنامه‌نگاری (ruz-nâme-negâri), روزنامه‌نویسی (ruz-nâme-nevisi)
• Plautdietsch: Zeitungschreft f
• Polish: dziennikarstwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: jornalismo (pt) m, periodismo m
• Romanian: jurnalism (ro)
• Russian: журнали́стика (ru) f (žurnalístika)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: новина́рство n, журналѝстика f

  Roman: novinárstvo (sh) n, žurnalìstika (sh) f

• Sicilian: jurnalismu
• Slovak: žurnalistika f, novinárstvo n
• Slovene: novinarstvo (sl) n
• Spanish: periodismo (es) m
• Swedish: journalistik (sv)
• Tagalog: pamamahayagan, pamahayagan
• Tajik: рӯзноманигорӣ (tg) (rüznomanigori), журналистика (tg) (žurnalistika)
• Tatar: журналистика (jurnalistika)
• Telugu: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: วารสารศาสตร์ (waa-rá-sǎan-sàat)
• Tibetan: གསར་འགོད (gsar 'god)
• Turkish: gazetecilik (tr)
• Turkmen: žurnalistika
• Ukrainian: журналі́стика f (žurnalístyka)
• Urdu: صحافت f (sahāfat), اخبار نویسی (axbār navīsī), خبر نگاری (xabar-nigārī), خبر نویسی (xabar-navīsī), نامہ نگاری (nāma-nigārī), صحیفہ نگاری (sahīfa-nigārī), مضمون نگاری (mazmūn nigārī), خبر رسانی (xabar-rasānī), روز نامہ نویسی (roz-nāma-navīsī), وقائع نگاری (waqāe-nigārī), وقائع نویسی (waqāe-navīsī), واقعہ نگاری (vāqea-nigārī), واقعہ نویسی (vāqea-navīsī)
• Uyghur: ئاخباراتچىلىق (axbaratchiliq)
• Uzbek: jurnalistika (uz)
• Vietnamese: nghề làm báo, nghề viết báo
• Võro: aokirändüs
• Welsh: newyddiaduraeth (cy)
• Yiddish: זשורנאַליזם m (zhurnalizm), זשורנאַליסטיק f (zhurnalistik)