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Journalism

The collection, preparation, and distribution of news and related commentary and feature materials through such media as pamphlets, newsletters, newspapers, magazines, radio, motion pictures, television, and books. While originally applied to the reportage of current events in printed form, specifically newspapers, with the advent of radio and television the use of the term has broadened to include all printed and electronic communication dealing with current affairs.

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The collection, preparation, and distribution of news and related commentary and feature materials through such media as pamphlets, newsletters, newspapers, magazines, radio, motion pictures, television, and books. While originally applied to the reportage of current events in printed form, specifically newspapers, with the advent of radio and television the use of the term has broadened to include all printed and electronic communication dealing with current affairs.

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11 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, supply & distribution, trends.

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History Note

1999; see JOURNALISM, MEDICAL 1994-1997

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  • Journalism (1994-1997)

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Journalism. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D020452. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D020452
  2. Journalism. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalism
  3. Journalism. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11030