Definition of "journalism" []

• The collecting, writing, editing, and presenting of news or news articles in newspapers and magazines and in radio and television broadcasts. (noun)
• Material written for publication in a newspaper or magazine or for broadcast. (noun)
• The style of writing characteristic of material in newspapers and magazines, consisting of direct presentation of facts or occurrences with little attempt at analysis or interpretation. (noun)
• Newspapers and magazines. (noun)
• An academic course training students in journalism. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "A conservative activist with a hidden video camera set out to embarrass ACORN -- and succeeded -- and a chain reaction was set off led by a brand of journalism known as \ "advocacy journalism\" which does not purport to be objective."
• "I’d submit my coverage of the ICCC events as good journalism - not out of ego but because I was told after the March NYC event that your humble correspondent did the best **journalism** of anyone there, even better than the supposedly professional journalists."
• "In a post called “Product v. process journalism: The myth of perfection v. beta culture“, he likens the type of ‘journalism‘ that takes place in the blogosphere to a sort of public beta, where bloggers publish what they know or think they know first and in turn receive help from the community in filling in the details."