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Journalist

A journalist (also called a newspaperman) is a person who practices journalism

Journalism

Journalism is the craft of conveying news, descriptive material and editorial via a widening spectrum of Media . These include newspapers, magazines, radio and television, the internet and, more recently, the cellphone....
, the gathering and dissemination of information

Information

Information as a Conveyed concept has a diversity of meanings, from everyday usage to technical settings. Generally speaking, the concept of information is closely related to notions of constraint, communication, control system, data, form, instruction, knowledge, Meaning , stimulation, pattern, perception, and knowledge representation....
about current events, trends, issues, and people while striving for viewpoints that aren't biased.

Reporter

Reporter

A reporter is a type of journalist who researches and presents information in certain types of mass media.Reporters gather their information in a variety of ways, including tips, press releases, sources and witnessing events....
s are one type of journalist.

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A journalist (also called a newspaperman) is a person who practices journalism

Journalism

Information

Reporter

Mass media

Mass media is a term used to denote a section of the media specifically envisioned and designed to reach a mainstream such as the population of a nation state....
such as newspaper

Newspaper

A newspaper is a publication containing news, information and advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called newsprint. General-interest newspapers often feature articles on Politics, crime, business, art/entertainment, society and sports....
s, television

Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
, radio

Radio

Radio is the transmission of signals, by modulation of electromagnetic radiation with frequency below those of visible light.Electromagnetic radiation radio propagation by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space....
, magazine

Magazine

for quarterly in Heraldry see Quartering Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of Article , generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscription, or all three....
s, documentary film

Documentary film

Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to "document" reality. Although "documentary film" originally referred to movies shot on film stock, it has subsequently expanded to include video and new media productions that can be either direct-to-video or made for a televis...
, and the Internet

Internet

The Internet is a global network of interconnected computers, enabling users to share information along multiple channels. Typically, a computer that connects to the Internet can access information from a vast array of available server and other computers by moving information from them to the computer's local memory....
. 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

Objectivity (journalism)

Objectivity is a significant principle of journalistic professionalism. Journalistic objectivity can refer to fairness, disinterestedness, factuality, and nonpartisanship, but most often encompasses all of these qualities....
and unbiased

Bias

Bias is a term used to describe a tendency or preference towards a particular perspective , ideology or result, especially when the tendency interferes with the ability to be impartial, unprejudiced, or Objectivity ....
way to serve the public good. A columnist

Columnist

A columnist is a journalist who writes for publication in a series, creating copy that can sometimes be strongly opinionated. Column appear in newspapers, magazines and other publications, including blogs on the Internet....
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

Editing

Editing is the process of preparing language, s, sound, video, or film through correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications in various media....
and visual journalists, such as photographer

Photographer

A photographer is a person who takes a photograph using a camera. A professional photographer uses photography to make a living whilst an amateur photographer does not earn a living and typically takes photographs for pleasure and to record an event, place or person for future enjoyment....
s, graphic artists, and page designers

News design

News design is the process of arranging material on a newspaper page, according to editorial and graphical guidelines and goals. Main editorial goals include the ordering of news story by order of importance, while graphical considerations include readability and balanced, unobtrusive incorporation of advertising....
.

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

Modern journalists

Modern media, including the creation of Internet-based news sources and the possibility that citizen journalism

Citizen journalism

'Citizen journalism', also known as 'public' or participatory journalism or democratic journalism, is the act of non-professionals "playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information," according to the seminal report We Media: How Audiences are Shaping the Future of New...
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, among others, the Indymedia network, a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage.

Kid journalists

The Scholastic News Kids Press Corps

Scholastic News Kids Press Corps

The Scholastic News Kids Press Corps is a group of about 80 kids aged 9-14, who report on current events, breaking news, entertainment, and sports events from across the United States for Scholastic Corporation News Classroom Magazine and Scholastic's website....
is a group of kids aged 8 -14 who report events from across the United States

United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
for Scholastic News website and classroom magazines.

Ethics in journalism

Some journalists in the United States adhere to the standards and norms expressed in the Society of Professional Journalists

Society of Professional Journalists

The Society of Professional Journalists , formerly known as Sigma Delta Chi, is one of the oldest organizations representing journalists in the United States....
ethical code

Ethical code

In the context of a code that is adopted by a profession or by a governmental or quasi-governmental organ to regulate that profession, an ethical code may be styled as a professional responsibility, which may dispense with difficult issues of what behavior is "ethical"....
. Foremost in the minds of most practicing journalists is the issue of maintaining credibility

Credibility

Credibility refers to the objective and subjective components of the believability of a source or message.Traditionally, credibility has two key components: trustworthiness and expertise, which both have objective and subjective components....
, "Professional integrity is the cornerstone of a journalist's credibility."

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.

United States

From Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York , is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Columbia's main campus lies in the Morningside Heights, Manhattan neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City....
and Point Park University

Point Park University

Point Park University is a liberal arts college located in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Formerly known as Point Park College, the school name was revised in 2004 to reflect the number of graduate programs being offered....
's School of Communications and Journalism on the East Coast of America, to University of Southern California

University of Southern California

The University of Southern California is a private university, nonsectarian, research university located in the University Park, Los Angeles, California neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, California, United States....
and Arizona State University

Arizona State University

Arizona State University is the largest public university research university in the United States under a single administration, with total student enrollment of 67,082 as of fall 2008....
's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication on the West Coast, there is a broad range of options for beginning journalists to choose from when entering the field. The nation's leading school of Journalism is at the University of Missouri.

Australia

In Australia, the most notable alumni of journalists come from Charles Sturt University

Charles Sturt University

Charles Sturt University is an Australian multi-campus university in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. It has campuses at Bathurst, New South Wales, Albury, New South Wales, Dubbo, New South Wales, Orange, New South Wales and Wagga Wagga....
, Jschool, RMIT University

RMIT University

The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology is a leading Australian public university and provider of vocational education, located in Melbourne, Victoria ....
and University of Technology, Sydney

University of Technology, Sydney

The University of Technology, Sydney , is a university in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is part of the Australian Technology Network of universities, and is the third largest university in Sydney in terms of enrollment numbers....

Journalist

Modern journalists

Kid journalists

Ethics in journalism

Educating journalists

United States

Australia

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