2. what is journalism
The word journalism is derived from Journal which means a daily register or a diary.
Today the word journal also connotes a newspaper, published every day or even less
often or a magazine. Thus, Journalism means the communication of information
regarding the events of a day through written words, sounds or pictures. And a journalist
is a person who writes for or conducts a newspaper or a magazine. He is also called a
press man.
3. Development of print media in world and india
• Printing Press by Chinese in 868 A.D. The Chinese “Court Gazette” was the
1st printing work.
• In 14th Century in Europe.
• In 16th century, morning Newspaper took place in Europe.
• In 1660, weekly publications from U.K. coming up. In 1665, “Oxford
Gazette”. Later on, became “London Gazette” made its appearance.
• In 1702, the first daily newspaper published from England (The Daily
Courant).
• The 1st newspaper of USA was published in 1690, “Public Occurrences both
Foreign and Domestic” by a British Benjamin Harris. The “Boston Newsletter”
was published in USA by an American in 1704
4. IN INDIA
• 1550: 1st Printing Press was used in India
• In the beginning only religious books were published in Portuguese, Tamil and Malayalam
• In 1832, “Bombay Samachar” in Gujrati published from Bombay.
• In 1838, “Times of India” in English published from Bombay.
• In 1885, ‘Pioneer in English” published from Lucknow.
• In 1886, “Amrit Bazar Patrika” in English published from Calcutta.
5. MEANING
• Journalism is the activity of gathering, assessing, creating, and presenting
news and information. It is also the product of these activities.
• Journalism can be distinguished from other activities and products by certain
identifiable characteristics and practices. These elements not only separate
journalism from other forms of communication, they are what make it
indispensable to democratic societies. History reveals that the more
democratic a society, the more news and information it tends to have.
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6. Deffination
• Welsley (1969) defined journalism as the systematic and reliable
gathering, writing, interpreting, processing and disseminating of public
opinion, public information and public entertainment for publication in
newspapers, magazines and telecast.
• Written form of journalism i.e., Printed matters, photojournalism and
broadcast journalism are some of the types of journalism.
• According to Leslie Stephens, "Journalism consists of writing for pay on
matters of which you are ignorant."
7. • According to Leslie Stephens, "Journalism consists of
writing for pay on matters of which you are ignorant."
• Eric Hodgins of Time Magazine defines it as, "Journalism
is the conveying of information from here to there with
accuracy, insight and dispatch and in such a manner that
the truth is served and the rightness of things is made
slowly, even if not immediately, more evident
