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Depending on the type of content that is generated in the media, journalism can be divided into various types. Each or all of these can be found in all the media mentioned above.
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Feature journalism: Newspapers and periodicals often contain features written by journalists, many of whom specialize in this form of in depth journalism. Features articles usually are longer than straight news articles, and are combined with photographs, drawings or other “art”. They may also be highlighted by typographic effects or colors.
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Sports journalism: Sports journalism covers many aspects of human athletic competition, and is an integral part of most journalism products, including newspapers, magazines, and radio and television news broadcasts. While some critics don’t consider sports journalism to be true journalism, the prominence of sports in western culture has justified the attention of journalists to not just the competitive events of sports, but also to athletes and to the business of sports.
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Science journalism: Science journalism is a relatively new branch of journalism, in which journalists reporting conveys information on science topics to the public. Science journalists must understand and interpret very detailed, technical and sometimes jargon-laden information and render it into interesting reports that are comprehensible to consumers of news media.
Science Journalism is the key to the real treasure of the scientific knowledge, by virtue of which scientific knowledge and concepts could be carried to the common man.
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Investigative journalism: Investigative journalism, in which journalists investigative and expose unethical, immoral and illegal behavior by individual, business and government agencies, can be complicated, time-consuming and expensive-requiring teams of journalists, months of research, interviews (sometimes repeated interviews) with numerous people, long-distance travel, computers to analyze public-record databases, or use of the company’s legal staff to secure documents under freedom of information laws.
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People journalism or celebrity: Celebrity journalism differs from feature writing in that it focuses on people who are either already famous or are especially attractive, and in that it often covers celebrities obsessively, to the point of these journalists behaving unethically in order to provide coverage. Journalists who follow celebrities constantly to obtain potentially embarrassing photographs, have come to characterize celebrity journalism.
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