1. Journalism is the hallmark of placing information in the public space (Burns, 2002).2. Journalism is the name for a profession in which people gather information, put it together in ways that are easy to understand and present it to the public (Whitmer, 2023).
3. The evolving of skills, routines and conventions involved in making news is termed journalism (Zelizer, 2005).
4. Journalism is the making and spreading of information on current events (Carter, 2019).
5. Journalism is the profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand (Lippmann, 1920).
6. Journalism is the process of selecting and shaping raw information to make it more palatable and digestible for public (Gans, 1979).
7. Journalism is a form of communication to transmit information to the public (Carey, 1989).
8. Journalism is the act of sourcing information to refined state for public acceptance (Nash, 2016).
9. The process of obtaining, evaluating, producing and presenting information is known as journalism (Roberts, 2023).
10. Journalism is notoriously referred to as a profession, occupation, trade or craft (Hanitzsh, 2016).
11. Journalism refers to the systematic gathering, filtering and circulation of information deemed to be news and in the public interest (Lewis, 2019).
12. The act of publicising information gathered to break free positive objectives (Wien, 2006).
13. Journalism is the impartiality exposed to the societal domain (Boudana, 2011).
14. Journalism is the operational mode of teeing the world what they need to know by journalists (Deuze, 2005).
15. Journalism is a process that informs people about the missing link of what happened and as a story telling with a purpose (Acheampong, 2017).
16. Journalism is the technical innovation to improve the world of information (Newman, 2023).
17. Journalism is the approach to which information is transferred to fill the vacuum of issues not heard by the world (Alterman, 2008).
18. Journalism is the key procedure that solves the information revolution of the world by giving out required evidence (Mcluhan, 1994).
19. The ability to spread the refined information to all generations (Thorsen, 2008).
20. Journalism is the collection and refining information by informing the world of issues surrounding them (Andrews, 2007).
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