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NAME: DAMNANG DOROTHY TINDAM

INDEX NUMBER:  BACS27019.

 

 

NAME: DAMNANG DOROTHY TINDAM

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DATE: JANUARY 17TH, 2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

20 DEFINITIONS OF JOURNALISM FROM SCHOLARS AND BOOKS.
I. Journalism is the branch of mass communications that provides people with the knowledge they need to make informed decisions about issues affecting their personal public lives. (Bovee, 1999).
II. Journalism can be seen in many ways such as an institution, a profession, a service, a text, a sixth sense, a container, a mirror, a child and a set of practices. (Zelizer, 2005)
III. Journalism is the business or practice of producing and disseminating information about contemporary affairs of general public interest and importance. (Schudson, 1978)
IV. Journalism is something that embraces all forms in which or through which the news and comments on the news reach the public. (Bond, 1961)
V. Journalism consists of writing for pay on matters of which you are ignorant.  (Leslie Stephens)
VI. Eric Hodgins of Time magazine defines Journalism as conveying of information from here to there with accuracy, insight and dispatch and in such a manner thatbthe truth is served and the rightness of things is made slowly even if not immidiately more evident.  
VII. According to Websters third international dictionary journalism is “ The coollection and editing of material of current interest fr presentation , publication or broadcast.”
VIII. Journalism as a process of public sense-making (Hartley, 1996)
IX. (Bardoel, 1997)defines journalism as the professional selection of actual news facts to an audience by means of technological distribution methods.
X. Shapiro admits that “journalism comprises of the activities involved in an independent pursuit of accurate information about current or recent events and its original presentation for public edification.” (Liwanag, 2014)
XI. It can be defined as a shared occupational ideology among news-workers which functions to self-legitimize their position in society (Deuze, 2005)
XII. (Stuart, 1993) suggests journalism to be a set of cultural practices which frame experience and form public consciousness of here and now.
XIII. Journalism is the dissemination of information through different mass media for the betterment of the society.(Bhardwaj, 2016).
XIV. journalism is the occupation of writing for publication in newspapers and other periodicals or the collection and editing of news for presentation through the media. (Noah, (1882))
XV. (Hindman, (1998) Journalism is represented by professional norms and uses certain techniques of news-gathering and construction.
XVI. Journalism is the communication of information through writing in periodicals and news papers (course hero, n.d.)
XVII. Journalism refers to the systematic gathering filtering and circulating of information deemed to be news and in public interest. (Lewis)
XVIII. Journalism is a term used to denote the practice of reporting news or current happenings for the masses of the country (httpintroductionpdf)
XIX. “Journalism could play as a vehicle to improve human lives.” (Martono, 2017)
XX. Journalism is the pre-eminent cultural form of our era occupying more resources in its production and routinely consumed by more people in most countries than any of the many other ways in which we experience the world through mass media.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Bardoel, J. (1997). Journalistiek in de informatiesamenleving[Journalism in the Information Society].

 

Bhardwaj, A. (2016). Healthy and Positive Journalism through Yoga. Uttarakhand, India.: Research Foundation for Science & Consciousness, .

 

Bond, F. F. (1961). An Introduction to Journalism. Macmillan.

 

Bovee, W. G. (1999). Discovering Journalism. Greenwood Publishing Group.

 

Deuze, M. (2005). What is Journalism? Professional identity and ideology of journalist reconsidered.

 

Hartley, J. (1996). Journalism as a Human Right; The Cultural Approach to Journalism.

 

Hindman, E.: ((1998). Spectacles of the Poor: Conventions of Alternative News, Journalism and Mass communication Quarterly, 177- 193.

 

Lewis, S. C. (n.d.). Journalism. 1.

 

Liwanag, R. (2014).

 

Martono, H. H. (2017). Culture, Media& Film.

 

McNair, B. (2005). Making Journalists. New York: RoutledgeTaylor& Francis Group.

 

Noah, W. ((1882)). Merriam Webster Dictionary. Retrieved from www.merriam-webster.com.

 

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