Journalist Heinz Abel, left, conducting an interview for German television.

A journalist (also called a newspaperman) is a person who practices journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues, and people while striving for non-bias viewpoint

Reporters are one type of journalist They create reports as a profession for broadcast or publication in mass media such as newspapers, television, radio, magazines, documentary film, and the Internet. 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 and unbiased way to serve the public good. A columnist 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 and visual journalists, such as photographers, graphic artists, and page designers

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

Origin

Modern journalists

Modern media, including the creation of Internet-based news sources and the possibility that citizen journalism 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.^{citation needed}

Kid Journalists

Main article: Scholastic News Kids Press Corps

The Scholastic News Kid Press crop. is a group of kids age 8 -14 who report for Scholastic News website and classroom magazines.

Ethics in journalism

Main article: Journalism ethics

Some journalists in the United States adhere^{citation needed} to the standards and norms expressed in the Society of Professional Journalists ethical code.¹ Foremost in the minds of most practicing journalists is the issue of maintaining credibility, "Professional integrity is the cornerstone of a journalist's credibility."¹

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 and Point Park University's School of Communications and Journalism on the East Coast of America, to University of Southern California and Arizona State University'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.

Australia

In Australia, the most notable alumni of journalists come from Charles Sturt University, Jschool, RMIT University and University of Technology, Sydney

See also

• War correspondent

Notes

References

• Fowler, Nathaniel Clark. (1913). The Handbook of Journalism: All about Newspaper Work.--Facts and Information of Vital Moment to the Journalist and to All who Would Enter this Calling. New York: Sully and Kleinteich.
• Huffman, James L. (2003). A Yankee in Meiji Japan: The Crusading Journalist. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. 10-ISBN 0-742-52621-6; 13-ISBN 978-0-742-52621-1
• Randall, David. (2000). The Universal Journalist. Sterling Virginia: Pluto Press. 10-ISBN 0-745-31641-7; 13-ISBN 978-0-745-31641-3; OCLC 43481682
• Stone, Ejijah Melville. (1921) Fifty Years a Journalist. New York: Doubleday, Page and Company. OCLC 1520155
• Woods, Donald. (1981). Asking for Trouble: Autobiography of a Banned Journalist. New York: Atheneum. 10-ISBN 0689111592; 13-ISBN 978-0-689-11159-4; OCLC 6864121

Journalist Association of India www.journalistassociationofindia.org +919899462353, +919818959047

External links

Journalism portal

• The Project for Excellence in Journalism
• The Committee of Concerned Journalists
• International Federation of Journalists
• Canadian Association of Journalists
• National Union of Journalists (UK)&(ROI)
• Media, Arts and Entertainment Alliance (Australia)
• Journalist Association of India.
• Society of Professional Journalists
• CubReporters.org
• JournoWorld website for journalists

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