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 country 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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The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner is a morning daily newspaper serving the city of Fairbanks, Alaska, the Fairbanks North Star Borough, the Denali Borough, and the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska. Because Fairbanks is located at a latitude of 64.838 degrees north, the News-Miner offices are located farther north than those of any other daily newspaper in North America. The paper is the oldest continuously operating daily in Alaska, by circulation it is the second-largest daily in the state. It was purchased by the Helen E. Snedden Foundation in 2016. The Snedden family were longtime owners of the News-Miner, selling it to a family trust for Dean Singleton and Richard Scudder, founders of the Media News Group in 1992.
The News-Miner was founded as the Weekly Fairbanks News in 1903 by George M. Hill and assumed the News-Miner name in 1909, under editor William Fentress Thompson, when Zachary Hickman sold his newspaper, The Miner News, to the Fairbanks News. Thompson guided the paper through tough economic times as the gold near Fairbanks was mined out. During this period, the News-Miner absorbed Fairbanks' other newspapers and became the sole publication in Fairbanks. During the 1920s, the News-Miner experimented with aerial delivery to remote mining camps, becoming one of the first newspapers in the world to make regular deliveries by aircraft. After Thompson's death in 1926, former Fairbanks mayor Alfeld Hjalmar Nordale became the paper's editor. (Full article...)
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Albert Camus ( ka-MOO; French: [albɛʁ kamy] ⓘ; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, and political activist. He was the recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in history. His works include The Stranger, The Plague, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Fall and The Rebel.
Camus was born in French Algeria to pied-noir parents. He spent his childhood in a poor neighbourhood and later studied philosophy at the University of Algiers. He was in Paris when the Germans invaded France during World War II in 1940. Camus tried to flee but finally joined the French Resistance where he served as editor-in-chief at Combat, an outlawed newspaper. After the war, he was a celebrity figure and gave many lectures around the world. He married twice but had many extramarital affairs. Camus was politically active; he was part of the left that opposed Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union because of their totalitarianism. Camus was a moralist and leaned towards anarcho-syndicalism. He was part of many organisations seeking European integration. During the Algerian War (1954–1962), he kept a neutral stance, advocating a multicultural and pluralistic Algeria, a position that was rejected by most parties. (Full article...)
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Image 1Presenter Reena Ninan interviewing politician Michael Bennet on CBS News (from News presenter)
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Image 2Roger Fenton's Photographic Van, 1855, formerly a wine merchant's wagon; his assistant is pictured at the front. (from Photojournalism)
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Image 3International newspapers on sale in Paris (from Newspaper)
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Image 4In 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)
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Image 5Photo and broadcast journalists interviewing government official after a building collapse (from Broadcast journalism)
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Image 6Entertainment reporter A. J. Calloway interviewing Eric McCormack at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Knife Fight (from Entertainment journalism)
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Image 7The newsroom of Gazeta Lubuska in Zielona Góra, Poland (from Newspaper)
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Image 8Abzas Media's editor-in-chief Sevinj Vagifgizi was sentenced to 9 years in prison in June 2025 (from Freedom of the press)
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Image 9AUR leader George Simion answering a question from a Digi 24 reporter in Cluj-Napoca, 2025 (from Freedom of the press)
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Image 10Josef Danhauser's portrait Newspaper readers, 1840 (from Newspaper)
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Image 11Yomiuri Shimbun, a broadsheet in Japan credited with having the largest newspaper circulation in the world (from Newspaper)
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Image 13Fanciful 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)
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Image 14The office building of Tyrvään Sanomat in Sastamala, Finland (from Newspaper)
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Image 15Newspaper vendor, Paddington, London, February 2005 (from Newspaper)
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Image 16The Crawlers, London, 1876–1877, a photograph from John Thomson's Street Life in London photo-documentary (from Photojournalism)
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Image 17Barricades on rue Saint-Maur (1848), the first photo used to illustrate a newspaper story (from Photojournalism)
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Image 18The Statute was adopted as the constitution of the Kingdom of Italy, granting freedom of the press (from Freedom of the press)
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Image 19Joseph 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)
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Image 20Newspaper and advertisement, Argentina (from Newspaper)
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Image 21A newsboy selling the Toronto Telegram in Canada in 1905 (from Newspaper)
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Image 22Georgiy Gongadze, Ukrainian journalist, founder of a popular Internet newspaper Ukrainska Pravda, who was kidnapped and murdered in 2000. (from Freedom of the press)
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Image 23A newspaper press in Limoges, France (from Newspaper)
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Image 24Al Jazeera's Gaza correspondent Hossam Shabat was assassinated by the IDF on 24 March 2025 (from Freedom of the press)
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Image 25"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)
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Image 26Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was a journalist and critic but was murdered by the Saudi Government. (from Freedom of the press)
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Image 27A journalist works on location at the Loma Prieta Earthquake in San Francisco's Marina District October 1989. (from Broadcast journalism)
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Image 28The data-driven journalism process. (from Data journalism)
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Image 29Belarusian journalist Katsyaryna Andreeva was sentenced to 8 years in prison in 2022 (from Freedom of the press)
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Image 30Protest outside the Russian Embassy in Berlin demanding the release of Russia's political prisoners, including journalists Ivan Safronov and Maria Ponomarenko, 2024 (from Freedom of the press)
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Image 31News 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)
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Image 32The editorial staff of Severnyi Kray in Yaroslavl, Russia in 1900 (from Newspaper)
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Image 33Cumhuriyet'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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Image 34The Telegraph printing house in Macon, Georgia, c. 1876 (from Newspaper)
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Image 35Mexican journalist Rubén Espinosa was murdered, along with four women, in Mexico City after fleeing death threats in Veracruz. (from Freedom of the press)
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Image 36First page of John Milton's 1644 edition of Areopagitica (from Freedom of the press)
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Image 37Sports photojournalists at Indianapolis Motor Speedway (from Photojournalism)
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Image 38Front page of the Helsingin Sanomat ( Helsinki Times) on July 7, 1904 (from Newspaper)
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Image 39Title page of Johann Carolus' Relation from 1609, the first newspaper (from Newspaper)
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Image 402023 World Press Freedom Index Good: 85–100 points Satisfactory: 70–85 points Problematic: 55–70 points Difficult: 40–55 points Very serious <40 points Not classified (from Freedom of the press)
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Image 41Soldiers in an East German tank unit reading about the erection of the Berlin Wall in 1961 in Neues Deutschland (from Newspaper)
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Image 42Front page of The New York Times on Armistice Day, 1918 (from Newspaper)
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Image 43Leica 1, (1925)'s introduction marked the beginning of modern photojournalism. (from Photojournalism)
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Image 45Canadian politician Andrew Scheer being interviewed in a scrum, 2017 (from Freedom of the press)
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Image 48Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz in its Hebrew and English editions (from Newspaper)
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Image 49Boy destroying piano at Pant-y-Waen, South Wales, by Philip Jones Griffiths, 1961 (from Photojournalism)
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Image 50The 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)
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Image 51Photojournalists at the 2016 Labour Party Conference in Liverpool (from Photojournalism)
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Image 52Freedom of the Press status 2017. (from Freedom of the press)
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