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Journalist Heinz Abel, left, conducting an interview for German television.

A journalist gathers and disseminates information about current events, people, trends, and issues. Their work is known as journalism.

Reporters are one type of journalist. They create reports as a profession for broadcast or publication in mass media such as newspapers, television, radio, magazines, documentary film, and the Internet. Reporters find sources for their work, their reports can be either spoken or written, and they are often expected to report in the most objective and unbiased way to serve the public good. A columnist is a journalist who writes pieces that appear regularly in newspapers or magazines.

Depending on the context, the term journalist also includes various types of editors and visual journalists, such as photographers, graphic artists, and page designers.

Journalists put the information in their own words, making it creative in their own way so it will catch the reader's or viewer's attention.

Ethics in journalism

Some journalists in the United States adhere to the standards and norms expressed in the Society of Professional Journalists ethical code.^[1] Foremost in the minds of most practicing journalists is the issue of maintaining credibility, "Professional integrity is the cornerstone of a journalist's credibility."^[1]

Journalist prison census

According to the 2008 prison census by the Committee to Protect Journalists, the world's biggest jailers of journalists are:^[2]

1. People's Republic of China
2. Cuba
3. Burma
4. Eritrea
5. Uzbekistan

The Reporters Without Borders and the Committee to Protect Journalists publish reports on press freedom and organize campaigns.

See also

• War correspondent

Notes

• Association of Professional Journalists
• Journalist Association of India

References

• Fowler, Nathaniel Clark. (1913). The Handbook of Journalism: All about Newspaper Work.--Facts and Information of Vital Moment to the Journalist and to All who Would Enter this Calling. New York: Sully and Kleinteich.
• Huffman, James L. (2003). A Yankee in Meiji Japan: The Crusading Journalist. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. 10-ISBN 0-742-52621-6; 13-ISBN 978-0-742-52621-1
• Randall, David. (2000). The Universal Journalist. Sterling Virginia: Pluto Press. 10-ISBN 0-745-31641-7; 13-ISBN 978-0-745-31641-3; OCLC 43481682
• Stone, Ejijah Melville. (1921) Fifty Years a Journalist. New York: Doubleday, Page and Company. OCLC 1520155
• Woods, Donald. (1981). Asking for Trouble: Autobiography of a Banned Journalist. New York: Atheneum. 10-ISBN 0689111592; 13-ISBN 978-0-689-11159-4; OCLC 6864121
• Media Club of Pakistan www.iranewschannel.com www.apnaira.com

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Category:Journalists

Journalism portal

• Associated Press Managing Editors
• Association of Professional Journalists
• Chartered Institute of Journalists (UK)
• Forum and social network for writers and journalists
• The Project for Excellence in Journalism
• The Committee of Concerned Journalists
• International Federation of Journalists
• Canadian Association of Journalists
• National Union of Journalists (UK)&(ROI)
• Media, Arts and Entertainment Alliance (Australia)
• Journalist Association of India.
• Society of Professional Journalists
• CubReporters.org
• JournoWorld website for journalists
• Media Club of Pakistan
• Union syndicale des journalistes CFDT
• Mass Media News
• A biographical dictionary of British & Irish Journalists, 1800-1960