Journalism is gathering, processing, and dissemination of news, and information related to news, to an audience. The word applies to the method of inquiring for news, the literary style which is used to disseminate it, and the activity (professional or not) of journalism.
Noun 1. newspapers and magazines collectively (synonym) news media, fourth estate (hypernym) print media (hyponym) Fleet Street (substance-meronym) copy 2. the profession of reporting or photographing or editing news stories for one of the media (hypernym) profession (hyponym) newspapering