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The Journalism Portal .jpg) Journalism is the production and distribution ofreports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the "news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree of accuracy. The word, anoun, applies to theoccupation (professional or not), the methods of gathering information, and the organizing literary styles. The appropriate role for journalism varies from country to country, as do perceptions of the profession, and the resulting status. In some nations, the news media are controlled by government and are not independent. In others, news media are independent of the government and operate asprivate industry. In addition, countries may have differing implementations of laws handling thefreedom of speech,freedom of the press as well asslander andlibel cases. Additionally, many academics have researched the role of journalism in the proliferation of globalisation, contributing to a more interconnected 'world as one.' In recent years, the rise of the internet and online media has significantly shifted how people consume information, with an increasing preference for digital sources. In some regions, this shift has even led to the complete disappearance of traditional print newspapers.The proliferation of the Internet andsmartphones has brought significant changes to the media landscape since the turn of the 21st century. This has created a shift in the consumption ofprint media channels, as people increasingly consume news throughe-readers,smartphones, and other personal electronic devices, as opposed to the more traditional formats of newspapers, magazines, ortelevision news channels. News organizations are challenged to fully monetize their digital wing, as well as improvise on the context in which they publish in print. Newspapers have seen print revenues sink at a faster pace than the rate of growth for digital revenues. (Full article...) Selected article –show another Newsweek is an American weeklynews magazine based inNew York City. Founded as a weekly print magazine in 1933, it was widely distributed during the 20th century and has had many notable editors-in-chief. It is currently co-owned byDev Pragad, the president andchief executive officer (CEO), and Johnathan Davis, who sits on the board; each owns 50% of the company. In August 2010, revenue decline promptedthe Washington Post Company to sellNewsweek to audio pioneerSidney Harman for one US dollar and an assumption of the magazine's liabilities. Later that year,Newsweek merged with the news and opinion websiteThe Daily Beast, formingThe Newsweek Daily Beast Company, later calledNewsBeast.Newsweek was jointly owned by the estate of Harman and the companyIAC.Newsweek continued to experience financial difficulties, leading to the suspension of print publication at the end of 2012. (Full article...) Selected image Photograph credit: Kambiz Foroohar Masih Alinejad (born 11 September 1976) is an Iranian journalist, author, political activist, and women's-rights activist. She currently lives in the United States where she works as a presenter and producer at theVoice of America Persian News Network, a correspondent forRadio Farda, a frequent contributor toManoto television, and a contributing editor toIranWire. This photograph was taken in 2018, the year when she published her memoir,The Wind in My Hair, dealing with her journey from a tiny village in northern Iran to becoming a journalist and creating an online movement that sparked nationwide protests against the compulsory wearing ofhijab. Did you know...
WikiProjectsSelected biography –show anotherEmmett Watson (November 22, 1918 – May 11, 2001) was an Americannewspaper columnist fromSeattle,Washington, whose columns ran in a variety of Seattle newspapers over a span of more than fifty years. Initially asportswriter, he is primarily known for authoring a social commentary column for theSeattle Post-Intelligencer (P-I) from 1956 until 1982, when he moved toThe Seattle Times and continued there as a columnist until shortly before his death in 2001. Watson grew up in Seattle during the 1920s and 1930s. He was a tireless advocate, through his column as well as through a fictional organization he created calledLesser Seattle, for limiting the seemingly unbridled growth and urban renewal that dramatically altered the city's landscape during the second half of the twentieth century. (Full article...) Original reportingIn the newsGeneral images -load new batchThe following are images from various journalism-related articles on Wikipedia.
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