Journalism
nounThe activity or profession of gathering, writing, and reporting news for newspapers, broadcasts, or websites.
How to spell journalism
10 letters · 4 syllables
How to pronounce journalism
Say the part in capitals loudest.
What does journalism mean?
- nounThe activity or profession of gathering, writing, and reporting news for newspapers, broadcasts, or websites.
Journalism in a sentence
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She studied journalism before joining the city newspaper.
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Investigative journalism exposed the company's hidden accounts.
Where does journalism come from?
Language of origin: French
The word traces back to the Latin diurnalis, meaning 'daily' or 'of the day', which came from dies, the ordinary Latin word for 'day'. That root passed into Old French as jurnal, a term for a daily record or account, and English borrowed it as 'journal' to mean a personal diary or a periodical that appeared at regular intervals. In the early nineteenth century, French coined journalisme to describe the new trade of writing for and editing such periodicals, and English took it directly as 'journalism' around the 1830s. The spelling preserves the buried 'jour', the French word for 'day', which is the same element hidden inside 'journey', originally a day's travel. Recognising that 'jour' nucleus is a useful anchor: the silent first vowel sound and the smooth -al before -ism are the spots writers tend to fumble.
How the word is built
- journal (a daily record, from Latin diurnalis: daily)
- -ism (practice or profession suffix)
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