Wednesday, September 3, 2008

What is journalism?

We started to consider this question on Tuesday... what is journalism?

Journalism is:
According to the University of Western Ontario (http://www.fims.uwo.ca/journalism/what-is-journalism.htm):
Journalism is the timely reporting of events at the local, provincial, national and international levels.
Reporting involves the gathering of information through interviewing and research, the results of which are turned into a fair and balanced story for publication or for television or radio broadcast.

Journalism is not just
fact-finding
media analysis
opinion writing, or
commentary

although all of those aspects can play a part at times.

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