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The art of explaining what happened before anyone agrees on why.
means The practice of gathering, verifying, and reporting news and current events to the public.
from Traces back to French 'journal,' meaning a daily record, itself from Latin 'diurnalis' — 'of the day' — rooted in 'dies,' day. A journal was first just a day-book, a place for daily entries; 'journalist' emerged for someone who wrote for these daily publications, and 'journalism' followed as the name for the whole trade of chronicling the day's events, one deadline at a time.
- first newspaper
- Relation, printed in Strasbourg, 1605.
- term coined
- Journalism entered English only around 1830.
- inverted pyramid
- Puts the ending first, in case readers quit.
- press freedom
- Over 60 percent of countries restrict it heavily.