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Kaiyuan Za Bao was an official publication which first appeared in the 8th century, during the Kaiyuan era. It has been described as the first Chinese newspaper or official gazette,^[1] and also as the world's first magazine.^[2] Pictured is a remake of the publication.

The title page of Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien (Account of all distinguished and commemorable stories), from 1609. The publication is recognized by the World Association of Newspapers^[3] as the world's first newspaper.

Journalism is the production and distribution of 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 countries 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...)

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A press pass (alternatively referred to as a press card or a journalist pass) grants some type of special privilege to journalists. Some cards have recognized legal status; others merely indicate that the bearer is a practicing journalist. The nature of the benefits is determined by the type of issuing agency, of which there are three major categories: news organizations, law-enforcement agencies, and event organizers (usually for a specific single affair like a corporate press conference). Each type of card grants different authorizations, thus it is often necessary or desirable for reporters to hold multiple press passes simultaneously. (Full article...)

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Paul Klebnikov (June 3, 1963 – July 9, 2004) was an American journalist of Russian descent. His murder in Moscow was seen as a blow against investigative journalism in Russia. Fellow journalist Richard Behar coordinates Project Klebnikov, a global media alliance launched to investigate Klebnikov's murder.

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...that the Gerald Loeb Award, administered by the UCLA Anderson School of Management (pictured), is considered the most prestigious honor in business journalism?
...that Augie Hiebert not only built Alaska's first television station, KTVA, but also founded the state's first FM radio station, KNIK-FM?

...that Ah Jook Ku, a journalist and writer based in Hawaii, was the first Asian American reporter for the Associated Press, as well as the first Asian American female reporter for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin?

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Jay Barbree (November 26, 1933 – May 14, 2021) was an American correspondent for NBC News, focusing on space travel. He was the only journalist to have covered every non-commercial human space mission in the United States, beginning with the first American in space, Alan Shepard aboard Freedom 7 in 1961, continuing through to the last mission of the Space Shuttle, Atlantis's STS-135 mission in July 2011. He was present for all 135 Space Shuttle launches, and every crewed launch for the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo eras. In all, he witnessed 166 human space launches. (Full article...)

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Image 1Photojournalists at the 2016 Labour Party Conference in Liverpool (from Photojournalism)
Image 2Newspaper Ora, in 1999, cover page. (from Freedom of the press)
Image 3Barricades on rue Saint-Maur (1848), the first photo used to illustrate a newspaper story (from Photojournalism)
Image 4Newspaper and advertisement, Argentina (from Newspaper)
Image 5"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 6In 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 7Soldiers in an East German tank unit reading about the erection of the Berlin Wall in 1961 in Neues Deutschland (from Newspaper)
Image 8A journalist works on location at the Loma Prieta Earthquake in San Francisco's Marina District October 1989. (from Broadcast journalism)
Image 9News 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 10Joseph 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 11Brian Williams interviews Mitt Romney on July 25, 2012, during Romney's presidential campaign. (from News presenter)
Image 12Yomiuri Shimbun, a broadsheet in Japan credited with having the largest newspaper circulation in the world (from Newspaper)
Image 13Photo and broadcast journalists interviewing government official after a building collapse (from Broadcast journalism)
Image 14Argentine newspaper stand in Salta (from Newspaper)
Image 15Person reading a newspaper (from Newspaper)
Image 16The Telegraph printing house in Macon, Georgia, c. 1876 (from Newspaper)
Image 17Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz in its Hebrew and English editions (from Newspaper)
Image 18The 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 19Newspaper vendor, Paddington, London, February 2005 (from Newspaper)
Image 20Freedom of the Press status 2017. (from Freedom of the press)
Image 21Photograph of a National Guardsman looking over the Washington Monument in Washington D.C. on January 21, 2021 (from Photojournalism)
Image 22The Statute was adopted as the constitution of the Kingdom of Italy, granting freedom of the press. (from Freedom of the press)
Image 23The editorial staff of Severnyi Kray in Yaroslavl, Russia in 1900 (from Newspaper)
Image 24In some countries, reporting on certain topics is prevented or restricted by governments. (from Freedom of the press)
Image 25A newsboy selling the Toronto Telegram in Canada in 1905 (from Newspaper)
Image 262022 Press Freedom Index
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Image 27First page of John Milton's 1644 edition of Areopagitica (from Freedom of the press)
Image 28Sports photojournalists at Indianapolis Motor Speedway (from Photojournalism)
Image 29Front page of the Helsingin Sanomat (Helsinki Times) on July 7, 1904 (from Newspaper)
Image 30Josef Danhauser's portrait Newspaper readers, 1840 (from Newspaper)
Image 31The data-driven journalism process. (from Data journalism)
Image 32Title page of Johann Carolus' Relation from 1609, the earliest newspaper (from Newspaper)
Image 33Fanciful 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 34Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was a journalist and critic, but was murdered by the Saudi Government. (from Freedom of the press)
Image 35Roger Fenton's Photographic Van, 1855, formerly a wine merchant's wagon; his assistant is pictured at the front. (from Photojournalism)
Image 36Boy destroying piano at Pant-y-Waen, South Wales, by Philip Jones Griffiths, 1961 (from Photojournalism)
Image 37Front page of The New York Times on Armistice Day, 1918 (from Newspaper)
Image 38Leica 1, (1925)'s introduction marked the beginning of modern photojournalism. (from Photojournalism)
Image 39International newspapers on sale in Paris (from Newspaper)
Image 40The Crawlers, London, 1876–1877, a photograph from John Thomson's Street Life in London photo-documentary (from Photojournalism)
Image 41The newsroom of Gazeta Lubuska in Zielona Góra, Poland (from Newspaper)
Image 42A 1619 edition of the Nieuwe Tijdinghen (from Newspaper)
Image 43A newspaper press in Limoges, France (from Newspaper)
Image 44Georgiy Gongadze, Ukrainian journalist, founder of a popular Internet newspaper Ukrayinska Pravda, who was kidnapped and murdered in 2000. (from Freedom of the press)
Image 45Entertainment reporter A. J. Calloway interviewing Eric McCormack at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Knife Fight (from Entertainment journalism)
Image 46The office building of Tyrvään Sanomat in Sastamala, Finland (from Newspaper)
Image 47Cumhuriyet's former editor-in-chief Can Dündar receiving the 2015 Reporters Without Borders Prize. Shortly after, he was arrested. (from Freedom of the press)

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The liberty of the press is essential to the security of freedom in a state: it ought not, therefore, to be restrained in this commonwealth.

— Massachusetts Constitution, The constitution was adopted in 1780 and is the oldest functioning written constitution in continuous effect in the world.

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^ Canadian Library Journal, Canadian Library Association, v. 27, 1992. Digitized Dec 27, 2007 from the University of California.
^ Murphy, Lawrence William. "An Introduction to Journalism: Authoritative Views on the Profession", 1930. T. Nelson and sons Journalism. Original from the University of California. Digitized Oct 23, 2007.
^ "WAN - Newspapers: 400 Years Young!". Wan-press.org. Archived from the original on 2010-03-10. Retrieved 2012-02-21.

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[1] Canadian Library Journal, Canadian Library Association, v. 27, 1992. Digitized Dec 27, 2007 from the University of California.

[2] Murphy, Lawrence William. "An Introduction to Journalism: Authoritative Views on the Profession", 1930. T. Nelson and sons Journalism. Original from the University of California. Digitized Oct 23, 2007.

[3] "WAN - Newspapers: 400 Years Young!". Wan-press.org. Archived from the original on 2010-03-10. Retrieved 2012-02-21.

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