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• Journalism originates from the Latin word diurnal, meaning daily, and is a communication of day-to-day information through sounds, pictures, and words.
• Journalism may appear in various formats such as newspapers, magazines, television, radios, and internet.
• Journalism is primarily concerned with the collection and dissemination of news through the print media as well as electronic media.
• Journalism involves various areas of work like reporting, writing, editing, photographing, broadcasting or cable casting news items.
• Journalism covers the printed media that comes in the form of broadsheets, tabloids, newsletter, and magazines.
• Newspapers are the oldest and most traditional format for the inclusion of journalism, containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising.
• American journalists relied on sensational stories that were used to excite or anger the public, rather than to inform them, a form of journalism known as 'yellow' journalism.
• Accurate and fact-based reporting became popular around the time of World War II, when the restrained style of writing gained resurgence.
• Newspapers played a large role in the development of freedom of expression.
• Inside sources with the ability to 'leak' stories to the press often choose newspapers first over any other medium due to the perceived willingness of their editors to expose corruption and lies among otherwise respected institutions.
• Magazines are publications containing a variety of articles that are generally published on a regular schedule, whether it be weekly, monthly or quarterly.
• Yellow journalism is a type of journalism that presents little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers.
• The key premise of Advocacy Journalism is that journalists participate in the mass-mediated public sphere and that their work deliberately and transparently stands for specific perspectives, with stories actively championing for certain ideas and values.
• Fairness in journalism means presenting both sides of the coin, both sides of the argument, both sides of controversial issues.
• Media advocacy is defined as the strategic use of mass media to advance public policy initiatives.
• With roots as far as the origins of journalism itself, as a contemporary practice, Advocacy Journalism can be found—to varying degrees—in all kinds of media outlets across the globe.
• Advocacy journalism is a genre of journalism that adopts a non-objective viewpoint, usually for some social or political purpose.
• Advocacy Journalism refers to a genre of journalism that combines reporting with a point of view.
• Objectivity, Truthfulness and Accuracy in journalism involve checking the veracity of data and information before they are published.
• Independence in journalism means putting forward the life of one or two persons by slashing the welfare of the general public is a clear violation of this tenet.
• New journalism expanded the definition of journalism and of legitimate journalistic reporting and writing techniques.
• Television, news journalism, including radio, is known as news broadcasting and is produced locally in a newsroom or by a broadcast network.
• Internet communications have excelled in the last decade or so, taking the way news is published with it, with an uncountable digitized number of reputable and not-so-reputable sources of information.
• Journalism and literature are both forms of writing, consumed by the public and have relative style.
• Journalists have rights, but they must bear on shoulders the duties to serve the interest of the public.
• Journalists should always be aware of their obligations to their readers to write the truth whatever it costs.
• Journalists must be brave enough to defend facts and the truth behind the news.
• The journalists’ main responsibility is to be transmitter of veracity in any issue, and that they are liable not to the company but to the public.
• Freedom of the press should be safeguarded by the people of media.
• Any topic under the sweltering heat of the sun may be written so long as there is no infraction to the existing laws of the land.