Kaiyuan Za Bao Kaiyuan era . It has been described as the first Chinese newspaper or official gazette,[ 1] magazine .[ 2] The title page of Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien World Association of Newspapers [ 3] Journalism reports 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, a noun , applies to the occupation (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 as private industry . In addition, countries may have differing implementations of laws handling the freedom of speech , freedom of the press as well as slander and libel cases .
The proliferation of the Internet and smartphones has brought significant changes to the media landscape since the turn of the 21st century. This has created a shift in the consumption of print media channels, as people increasingly consume news through e-readers , smartphones , and other personal electronic devices, as opposed to the more traditional formats of newspapers, magazines, or television 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...
Ida Minerva Tarbell investigative journalist , biographer , and lecturer. She was one of the leading muckrakers and reformers of the Progressive Era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was a pioneer of investigative journalism .
Born in Pennsylvania at the beginning of the oil boom, Tarbell is best known for her 1904 book The History of the Standard Oil Company .McClure's Daniel Yergin . The work contributed to the dissolution of the Standard Oil monopoly and helped usher in the Hepburn Act of 1906, the Mann-Elkins Act , the creation of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and the passage of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914 . (Full article...
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Image 1 The Crawlers ,
London , 1876–1877, a photograph from
John Thomson 's
Street Life in London photo-documentary (from
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Image 2 Boy destroying piano at Pant-y-Waen, South Wales, by
Philip Jones Griffiths , 1961 (from
Photojournalism )
Image 3 Georgiy Gongadze ,
Ukrainian journalist , founder of a popular Internet newspaper
Ukrainska Pravda , who was kidnapped and murdered in 2000. (from
Freedom of the press )
Image 4 The data-driven journalism process. (from
Data journalism )
Image 5 A newspaper press in
Limoges , France (from
Newspaper )
Image 6 Israeli daily newspaper
Haaretz in its
Hebrew and
English editions (from
Newspaper )
Image 7 Presenter
Reena Ninan interviewing politician
Michael Bennet on
CBS News (from
News presenter )
Image 8 Cumhuriyet 's former editor-in-chief
Can Dündar receiving the 2015
Reporters Without Borders Prize . Shortly after, he was arrested. (from
Freedom of the press )
Image 9 Newspaper vendor,
Paddington , London, February 2005 (from
Newspaper )
Image 10 AUR leader
George Simion answering a question from a
Digi 24 reporter in
Cluj-Napoca , 2025 (from
Freedom of the press )
Image 12 Photo and broadcast journalists interviewing government official after a
building collapse (from
Broadcast journalism )
Image 14 Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was a journalist and critic but was murdered by the Saudi Government. (from
Freedom of the press )
Image 15 Freedom of the Press status 2017. (from
Freedom of the press )
Image 16 Yomiuri Shimbun , a broadsheet in
Japan credited with having the largest newspaper circulation in the world (from
Newspaper )
Image 17 Protest outside the Russian Embassy in Berlin demanding the release of Russia's
political prisoners , including journalists
Ivan Safronov and
Maria Ponomarenko [sv ] , 2024 (from
Freedom of the press )
Image 19 The newsroom of
Gazeta Lubuska in
Zielona Góra , Poland (from
Newspaper )
Image 20 International newspapers on sale in
Paris (from
Newspaper )
Image 21 In
Migrant Mother (1936)
Dorothea Lange produced the seminal image of the
Great Depression . The FSA also employed several other photojournalists to document the depression. (from
Photojournalism )
Image 22 Fanciful drawing of a
general store by
Marguerite Martyn in the
St. Louis Post-Dispatch on October 21, 1906. On the far left, a group of men share reading a newspaper. (from
Newspaper )
Image 23 The office building of
Tyrvään Sanomat in
Sastamala , Finland (from
Newspaper )
Image 24 Soldiers in an
East German tank unit reading about the erection of the
Berlin Wall in 1961 in
Neues Deutschland (from
Newspaper )
Image 25 The editorial staff of
Severnyi Kray in
Yaroslavl , Russia in 1900 (from
Newspaper )
Image 26 Roger Fenton's Photographic Van , 1855, formerly a wine merchant's wagon; his assistant is pictured at the front. (from
Photojournalism )
Image 27 Al Jazeera 's Gaza correspondent
Hossam Shabat was assassinated by the
IDF on 24 March 2025 (from
Freedom of the press )
Image 28 The Statute was adopted as the constitution of the Kingdom of Italy, granting freedom of the press (from
Freedom of the press )
Image 29 First page of
John Milton 's 1644 edition of
Areopagitica (from
Freedom of the press )
Image 30 Newspaper and advertisement,
Argentina (from
Newspaper )
Image 31 Josef Danhauser 's portrait
Newspaper readers , 1840 (from
Newspaper )
Image 32 A journalist works on location at the Loma Prieta Earthquake in San Francisco's Marina District October 1989. (from
Broadcast journalism )
Image 33 Front page of the
Helsingin Sanomat (
Helsinki Times ) on July 7, 1904 (from
Newspaper )
Image 34 The
Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung pioneered modern photojournalism and was widely copied. Pictured, the cover of issue of 26 August 1936: a meeting between
Francisco Franco and
Emilio Mola . (from
Photojournalism )
Image 35 2023 World Press Freedom Index Good: 85–100 points
Satisfactory: 70–85 points
Problematic: 55–70 points
Difficult: 40–55 points
Very serious <40 points
Not classified
(from
Freedom of the press )
Image 37 Sports photojournalists at
Indianapolis Motor Speedway (from
Photojournalism )
Image 38 Canadian politician
Andrew Scheer being interviewed in a
scrum , 2017 (from
Freedom of the press )
Image 39 The Telegraph printing house in
Macon, Georgia ,
c. 1876 (from
Newspaper )
Image 40 Front page of
The New York Times on
Armistice Day , 1918 (from
Newspaper )
Image 41 "Geronimo's camp before surrender to General Crook, March 27, 1886: Geronimo and Natches mounted; Geronimo's son (Perico) standing at his side holding baby." By
C. S. Fly . (from
Photojournalism )
Image 42 Title page of
Johann Carolus '
Relation from 1609, the first newspaper (from
Newspaper )
Image 43 A
newsboy selling the
Toronto Telegram in Canada in 1905 (from
Newspaper )
Image 44 Entertainment reporter
A. J. Calloway interviewing
Eric McCormack at the 2012
Tribeca Film Festival premiere of
Knife Fight (from
Entertainment journalism )
Image 45 News set for
WHIO-TV in
Dayton ,
Ohio . News anchors often report from sets such as this, located in or near the
newsroom . (from
News presenter )
Image 46 Joseph Goebbels '
Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda was a driving force of suppressing freedom of the press in Nazi Germany. (from
Freedom of the press )
Image 47 Barricades on rue Saint-Maur (1848), the first photo used to illustrate a newspaper story (from
Photojournalism )
Image 48 Photojournalists at the 2016
Labour Party Conference in Liverpool (from
Photojournalism )
Image 49 Mexican journalist
Rubén Espinosa was murdered, along with four women, in
Mexico City after fleeing death threats in Veracruz. (from
Freedom of the press )
Image 50 Leica 1, (1925)'s introduction marked the beginning of modern photojournalism. (from
Photojournalism )
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