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Journalism and Communications

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Journalism and Communications at University of Gloucestershire

Language: English Studies in English
Subject area: journalism and information
University website: www.glos.ac.uk

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Journalism
Journalism refers to the production and distribution of reports on recent events. The word journalism applies to the occupation (professional or not), the methods of gathering information and organising literary styles. Journalistic mediums include print, television, radio, Internet and in the past: newsreels.
Journalism
The thorn in the cushion of the editorial chair.
William Makepeace Thackeray, Roundabout Papers, The Thorn in the Cushion.
Journalism
Get your facts first, and then you can distort 'em as much as you please.
Mark Twain, Interview with Kipling, In From Sea to Sea, Epistle 37.
Journalism
A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life — what people are interested in. That's journalism.
Burton Rascoe As quoted in Useful Quotations : A Cyclopedia of Quotations (1933) edited by Tryon Edwards, C. N. Catrevas, and Jonathan Edwards
Much greater efficiencies of coal-fired power plants can be achieved by raising steam turbine temperatures and employing innovative combustion processes. Scientists are developing anti-corrosion coatings to facilitate implementation and fewer emissions.
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