Portal:Journalism

Introduction Journalism refers to the production and distribution of reports on recent events. The word journalism applies to the occupation, as well as citizen journalists using methods of gathering information and using literary techniques. Journalistic media include print, television, radio, Internet, and, in the past, newsreels. Concepts of the appropriate role for journalism vary between countries. In some nations, the news media are controlled by government intervention and are not fully independent. In others, the news media are independent of the government but instead operate as private industry motivated by profit. In addition to the varying nature of how media organizations are run and funded, countries may have differing implementations of laws handling the freedom of speech and libel cases. Selected article "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" is a profile of Frank Sinatra written by Gay Talese for the April 1966 issue of Esquire. Talese had spent the first ten years of his career at The New York Times. Talese felt restricted by the limitations of newspaper writing and began searching for jobs with magazines. In 1965 he signed a 1-year, 6-story contract with Esquire magazine. His first assignment from Esquire's editor Harold Hayes was to write a profile of Frank Sinatra. It was a difficult assignment; Sinatra had turned down interview requests from Esquire for years. The piece employed techniques like scenes, dialogue and third-person narrative that were common in fiction, but still rare in journalism. The article is one of the most famous pieces of magazine journalism and is often considered not only the greatest profile ever written of Frank Sinatra but one of the greatest celebrity profiles ever written. The profile is one of the seminal works of New Journalism and is still widely read, discussed and studied. In the 70th anniversary issue of Esquire magazine in October 2003, the editors declared the piece the "Best Story Esquire Ever Published." Selected image Mahmūd Bēg Tarzī (1865 - 1933) was one of Afghanistan's greatest intellectuals. He is known as the father of Afghan journalism. As a great modern thinker, he became a key figure in the history of Afghanistan, leading the charge for modernization and being a strong opponent of religious obscurism. Did you know... ...that New York Journal cartoonist and illustrator Nell Brinkley created the "Brinkley Girl" (pictured) an iconic representation of independent working women popular in the early 20th century? ...that Selvarajah Rajivarnam was the fourth journalist to be killed on April 29, during the last three years of the Sri Lankan civil war? ...that Time predicted 1973 to be a "gilt-edged year" for the stock market, just three days before the stock market crash of 1973–4 began, wiping 45% off the value of the Dow Jones Industrial Average? In the news Journalism articles from Wikinews January 30: Mokha, Yemen bomb kills photojournalist, at least five others January 4: Magnitogorsk apartment building collapses after explosion, dozens dead December 30: US political pundit Bre Payton, 26, dies suddenly Selected biography Mumia Abu-Jamal (born Wesley Cook on April 24, 1954) was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1981 murder of police officer Daniel Faulkner, and is currently a prisoner at State Correctional Institution - Greene near Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. In December 2001 a judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania affirmed the conviction but quashed his original punishment and ordered resentencing. Both Abu-Jamal and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania appealed. The case was orally argued before a three-judge panel in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Philadelphia on May 17, 2007, and is pending. His case has received international attention. Supporters and human rights campaigners variously assert that he is innocent, that he was set up, that he did not receive a fair trial, and/or oppose the death penalty. Opponents assert that he is guilty, that he received the benefit of due process and was legitimately convicted of murder. Execution proponents among these assert that under Pennsylvania law his eventual judicial execution is warranted and mandated by the nature of his crime. Prior to his arrest he was a Black Panther Party activist, cab driver, and journalist. During the period of his imprisonment he has courted controversy as an honoree of municipal, educational and civil society organizations, and as a spoken word commentator and published author of several works - most notably Live from Death Row. 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Original reporting Original reporting from Wikinews January 27: Male Magellanic penguins pine for pairings: Wikinews interviews biologist Natasha Gownaris January 26: US study finds correlation between youth suicide, household gun ownership January 15: Iranian cargo plane crashes into Karaj houses Selected quote Featured content Featured articles Jonathan Agnew Muhammad al-Durrah incident Felice Beato Isabella Beeton Ramón Emeterio Betances James G. Blaine Horatio Bottomley William D. Boyce Louise Bryant Neville Cardus Ian Chappell Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies Stephen Crane Donald Trump (Last Week Tonight) Mr. Dooley Double Seven Day scuffle Georg Forster Fuck (film) Margaret Fuller William Gibson Arthur Gilligan Horace Greeley Rufus Wilmot Griswold Warren G. Harding John Hay Ernest Hemingway Peter Jennings Ian Johnson (cricketer) Lord of the Universe James Russell Lowell Bruno Maddox Bill O'Reilly (cricketer) The Philadelphia Inquirer Ion Heliade Rădulescu Mark Satin Elliott Fitch Shepard Street newspaper Sunderland Echo Bazy Tankersley William Beach Thomas The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power Nathaniel Parker Willis Robert Sterling Yard Murder of Joanna Yeates Featured lists Works of John Betjeman CPJ International Press Freedom Awards Fyodor Dostoevsky bibliography George Orwell bibliography Dan Savage bibliography Good articles 1988–94 British broadcasting voice restrictions The American Israelite Antara (news agency) Arbeideren (Hamar) Erwin Arnada Ars Technica Azimzhan Askarov Margaret Atwood Ben Bagdikian Nathaniel P. Banks Jay Barbree Rachel Barrett Robert Benchley A. Scott Berg Alexander Berkman Big Girls Don't Cry (book) Olly Blackburn Reid Blackburn Jesús Blancornelas Alexandru Bogdan-Pitești Neal Boortz Max Boot Geoffrey Boycott Gordon Brown Manuel Buendía C-SPAN George Whitney Calhoun Panait Cerna Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s Stephen Colbert The Concrete Herald Conscience-in-Media Award Myron Cope Marshall S. Cornwell William B. Cornwell Cutting the Mustard Steve Dahl The Daily Show The Daily Stormer Mauro De Mauro Joseph Dennie Leigh Diffey Carl Diggler Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells Disneyland with the Death Penalty Casey Donovan (actor) Roger Ebert Wilfrid Eggleston Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Jessica Feshbach Ioan C. Filitti Jack Fingleton Five Days at Memorial Frank Sinatra Has a Cold Free Expression Policy Project Golos Truda Johan Hambro Bill Harry Nat Hentoff Lorena Hickok Ivar Hippe Georgia Hopley Louis Howe Illustrated Daily News Insane Clown President Constantin Al. Ionescu-Caion David Irving Is Google Making Us Stupid? Peter Isaacson The Jakarta Post Mansoor al-Jamri Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy Mark Kellogg (reporter) Jim Kilburn Mihail Kogălniceanu Judith Krug The Lady's Realm André Laguerre Nigella Lawson Bernard Levin Manifesto of the Sixteen Chelsea Manning Abby Martin Regina Martínez Pérez Karl Marx McCook Gazette Janice Min Mariano Moreno Luis Muñoz Rivera Narada sting operation National Press Monument The National (Scotland) New York Herald Tribune Not in Front of the Children Nouvelles Extraordinaires de Divers Endroits Norm O'Neill Blas Ople Outrageous Betrayal Sophia Parnok Ioan Gyuri Pascu Elizabeth Peer The Plot to Hack America Polygon (website) William T. Porter Press pass Bolesław Prus Alfred Pullin Hamdi Qandil Rantzen v Mirror Group Newspapers (1986) Ltd and others A Rape on Campus The Register-Guard Dick Rifenburg George Ripley (transcendentalist) Nick Robinson (journalist) Rockism and poptimism Helen Rollason Eleanor Roosevelt Yoani Sánchez Michael Savage Andrew Schneider (journalist) Stuart Scott Seara (newspaper) Sex, Sin, and Blasphemy Henryk Sienkiewicz The Signpost Helen Foster Snow Mam Sonando Spin Alternative Record Guide Gloria Steinem Lucy Stone John Stossel Frank Swift Howard Llewellyn Swisher Tạ Phong Tần Tabloid Junkie Ida Tarbell Technique (newspaper) Brian Tierney Trump Revealed Tristan Tzara Murder of Udin Unomásuno Virginia Argus and Hampshire Advertiser Nils Vogt (journalist) WSJ. The War Within (Woodward book) Washington Blade Emmett Watson Walt Whitman Oscar Wilde George Wilkes Bob Willis Henry Wilson Anna Wintour Norman Yardley Featured pictures File:"Broke, baby sick, and car trouble!" - Dorothea Lange's photo of a Missouri family of five in the vicinity of Tracy, California.jpg File:A Wilde time 3.jpg File:Bloody Saturday, Shanghai.jpg File:Ernest Hemingway in Milan 1918 retouched 3.jpg File:Ida Husted Harper photograph by Aime Dupont.jpg File:Ida M. Tarbell crop.jpg File:Mary Garrity - Ida B. Wells-Barnett - Google Art Project - restoration crop.jpg File:Masih Alinejad.jpg File:Minggu Pagi 6.45 (7 February 1954) cover.jpg File:Walt Whitman - George Collins Cox.jpg Things you can do Place the {{WikiProject Journalism}} project banner on the talk pages of all articles within the scope of WikiProject Journalism. Rate the unassessed articles according to the quality scale Cleanup: CNN, 2003 invasion of Iraq media coverage, Editorial Expand: L'Aurore, History of journalism, Journalist Stubs: Documentary stubs, Journalist stubs, Newspaper stubs, Magazine stubs, Television news programme stubs, More stubs... Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of journalists Main topics Related portals Books Culture Current events Literature Politics Photography Radio Society Television Writing Associated Wikimedia