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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Journalism \Jour"nal*ism\, noun [Cf. F. journalisme.]
1. The keeping of a journal or diary. [Obs.]
2. The periodical collection and publication of current news; the business of managing, editing, or writing for, journals, newspapers, magazines, broadcasting media such as radio or television, or other news media such as distribution over the internet; as, political journalism; broadcast journalism; print journalism. [1913 Webster +PJC]
Journalism is now truly an estate of the realm. --Ed. Rev.
3. The branch of knowledge that studies phenomena associated with news collection, distribution, and editing; a course of study, especially in institutions of higher learning, that teaches students how to write, edit, or report news. [PJC]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
journalism
noun
1: newspapers and magazines collectively [syn: {news media}, {fourth estate}]
2: the profession of reporting or photographing or editing news stories for one of the media
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
73 Moby Thesaurus words for "journalism": AP, Associated Press, Fleet Street, Reuters, UPI, United Press International, advice, artistry, authorcraft, authorship, automatic writing, book publishing, broadcast journalism, cacoethes scribendi, communications, communications industry, composition, creative writing, drama-writing, editorial-writing, essay-writing, expository writing, facility in writing, feature-writing, fourth estate, graphomania, graphorrhea, graphospasm, inditement, information, intelligence, libretto-writing, literary artistry, literary composition, literary power, literary production, literary talent, magazine publishing, news, news agency, news medium, news service, newsiness, newsletter, newsmagazine, newspaper, newsworthiness, novel-writing, pen, pencraft, playwriting, press association, print medium, public press, public print, publishing, publishing industry, radio, ready pen, reportage, rewriting, short-story writing, skill with words, technical writing, telegraph agency, television, the fourth estate, the press, tidings, verse-writing, wire service, word, writing
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