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Journalism is the timely reporting of events at the local, provincial, national and international levels. Reporting involves the gathering of information through interviewing and research, the results of which are turned into a fair and balanced story for publication or for television or radio broadcast.
Journalism is not just fact-finding media analysis opinion writing or commentary although all of those aspects can play a part at times.
Journalism is that part of social activity which is concerned with the dissemination of news and views about the society.
Modern journalism feeds five areas of mass communication – (1) Newspapers and Periodicals, (2) Radio, (3) Television, (4) Films, (5) Advertising & Public Relations.
In modern societies, Journalism has become the media of mass education providing supplementary education to students at all stages and to the general masses – educated and uneducated.
In modern times, the horizon of journalism has widened and it has transcended the limits of mere reporting of political and economic news.
Journalism has as its main activity the reporting of events stating who, what, where, why and how, and explaining the significance and effects of events or trends.
Journalism exists in a number of media: newspapers, television, radio, magazines and, most recently, the World Wide Web through the internet.
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