1. Journalism is a discipline of verification. (Bill Kovach, 2007)
2. Journalism intends to inform the society about itself and to make events public that would otherwise remain private. (Harcup, 2009)
3. Journalism is the manufacturing and distribution of news on contemporary occasions primarily based totally on statistics and supported with evidence. (Nicholson, 2011)
4. Journalism is a career among informing society and civil society. (Bardoel, 1996)
5. Journalism is a form of writing that tells people about things that really happened but that they might not have known about already. (Niles, 2007)
6. Journalism involves the sifting and editing of information, comments and events into a form that is recognizably different from the pure form in which they first occurred. (Richard Rudin, 2001)
7. Journalism is gathering, processing and disseminating news and information related to the news to an audience. (Hargeaves, 2014)
8. Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on current events based on facts and supported with proof or evidence. (Woodward, 2001)
9. Journalism refers to the activities and outcomes of those professionally engaged in collecting, analysing and publishing news. (McQuail, 2013)
10. Journalism is the dissemination of records. (Licitar, 2018)
11. Journalism it is said more akin to a craft or trade, learned by doing. (Sanders, 2003)
12. Journalism is the activity or profession of writing for newspaper or magazines or broadcast news on radio and television. (Vazirani, 2018 )
13. Journalism is a plausible manner and ability to write and deliver concise, accurate copy to deadline. (Sanders K. , 2003)
14. Journalism is a phenomenon with volume, materiality, dimension depth and complexity.
Journalism holds information for the public. (Zelizer, 2005).
15. Journalism comprises the activities involved in an independent pursuit of accurate information about current or recent events and its original presentation for public edification. (Shapiro, 2014 )
16. Journalism is a trend towards study of the communication process in relation to its society. (Schramm, 1957)
17. Journalism is taking information and turning it into something relevant and meaningful. (Peterson, 2017)
18. Journalism is seeing with different eyes, listening to with different ears and wondering with different minds than the ones we previously used. (Paine, 2002)
19. Journalism is an activity or a profession to collect information and write for newspapers, magazines, websites or to broadcast it through various media such as television, radio or live streaming. (Bhasin, 2020)
20. Journalism is the deliberate gathering through acceptable means of rumours that are then processed into relevant news for the purpose of persuading the general public through information, entertainment, education or advocacy. (Acheampong, 2017)
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