journalism

English

Etymology

From French journalisme (beginning of 19th century).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdʒɜːn(ə)lɪzəm/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdʒɝnl̩ˌɪzəm/
• 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

• ambush journalism
• checkbook journalism
• citizen journalism
• cyberjournalism
• e-journalism
• gonzo journalism
• gotcha journalism
• immersion journalism
• investigative journalism
• literary journalism
• New Journalism
• pack journalism
• parajournalism
• photojournalism
• service journalism
• telejournalism
• video journalism
• yellow journalism

 

Translations

activity or profession of being a journalist

• Afrikaans: joernalistiek
• Albanian: gazetari (sq) f
• Arabic: صِحَافَة‎ f (ṣiḥāfa)
• Armenian: լրագրություն (hy) (lragrutʿyun)
• Asturian: periodismu m
• Azerbaijani: jurnalistika
• Belarusian: журналі́стыка f (žurnalístyka)
• Bengali: জার্নালিজম (jarnalijôm)
• Breton: kazetennerezh (br) m
• Bulgarian: журнали́стика (bg) f (žurnalístika)
• Burmese: သတင်းစာပညာ (sa.tang:capa.nya)
• Catalan: periodisme m
• Cebuano: dyornalismo, peryodismo
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 新聞學 (zh), 新闻学 (zh) (xīnwénxué), 新聞界 (zh), 新闻界 (zh) (xīnwénjiè), 新聞業, 新闻业 (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 (he)
• Hindi: पत्रकारिता (patrakāritā)
• Hungarian: újságírás (hu)
• Icelandic: blaðamennska f, fréttamennska (is) f
• Ido: jurnalisteso
• Indonesian: jurnalisme (id)
• Italian: giornalismo (it) m
• Japanese: ジャーナリズム (jānarizumu)
• Kazakh: журналистика (jwrnalïstïka)
• Korean: 저널리즘 (jeoneollijeum)

• Kyrgyz: журналистика (ky) (curnalistika)
• Lao: ວາລະສານສາດ (wā la sān sāt)
• Latvian: žurnālistika f
• Lithuanian: žurnalistika f
• Macedonian: новина́рство n (novinárstvo)
• Malay: kewartawanan
• Mongolian: сэтгүүл зүй (setgüül züj)
• Norwegian: journalistikk
• Persian: ژورنالیسم‎ (fa) (žurnâlisem), روزنامه‌نگاری‎ (ruz-nâme-negâri)
• Polish: dziennikarstwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: jornalismo (pt) m, periodismo m
• Romanian: jurnalism (ro)
• Russian: журнали́стика (ru) f (žurnalístika)
• Rusyn: журналі́стіка 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) (rüznomanigorī), 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: журнали́стика f (žurnalýstyka)
• Urdu: please add this translation if you can
• Uzbek: jurnalistika (uz)
• Vietnamese: nghề làm báo, nghề viết báo
• Võro: aokirändüs
• Welsh: newyddiaduraeth (cy)
• Yiddish: זשורנאַליזם‎ m (zhurnalizm), זשורנאַליסטיק‎ f (zhurnalistik)