JOURNALISM in a Sentence

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52-year-old Carol, who qualified as a solicitor before switching to journalism, showed the spirit of an iron lady.

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 Meanings and Examples of JOURNALISM
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
journalism
 n.  profession of reporting, photographing, or editing news for media
Classic Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
1  He was sure that he could do something better than his friend had ever done, or could ever do, something higher than mere tawdry journalism if he only got the chance.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A LITTLE CLOUD
2  He leaned back in his chair, inclining his ear like that of a confessor to the face of the medical student who was reading to him a problem from the chess page of a journal.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
3  He and I sometimes write letters in shorthand, and he is keeping a stenographic journal of his travels abroad.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
4  My household work is done, so I shall take his foreign journal, and lock myself up in my room and read it.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
5  That awful journal gets hold of my imagination and tinges everything with something of its own colour.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
6  I am so glad I have type-written out my own journal, so that, in case he asks about Lucy, I can hand it to him; it will save much questioning.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
7  It is the copy of his journal when abroad, and all that happened.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
8  Well, some day Jonathan will tell me all; and lest it should ever be that he should think for a moment that I kept anything from him, I still keep my journal as usual.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
9  Such is my journal of what relates to this strange occurrence up to the present day.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 4
10  I shall continue my journal concerning the stranger at intervals, should I have any fresh incidents to record.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 4
11  It was your journal of the four months that preceded my creation.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
12  And you, my friend, would be far more amused with the journal of Clerval, who observed the scenery with an eye of feeling and delight, than in listening to my reflections.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
13  Miss Mills and her journal were my sole consolation at this period.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 38. A DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP
14  I found, on glancing at the remaining contents of the newspaper, that Mr. Micawber was a diligent and esteemed correspondent of that journal.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 63. A VISITOR
15  Lily could remember when young Silverton had stumbled into their circle, with the air of a strayed Arcadian who has published charming sonnets in his college journal.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
Example Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1  Thompson is credited with developing a new form of fictional journalism, in which the writer made himself an essential element of the story.
2  By fostering superior journalistic writing from scholarly research, the School's aim is to improve the standard of professional journalism.
3  She went on to earn a degree in journalism from the University of Idaho in 1987, coming back to Alaska to be a sports commentator in Anchorage.
4  52-year-old Carol, who qualified as a solicitor before switching to journalism, showed the spirit of an iron lady.
5  The saga of the Sun, a statement said, showed that even remotely independent journalism could not be tolerated in Malaysia and therefore could not survive.
6  The documentary was an example of investigative journalism at its best.
7  Cliche is a feature of bad journalism.
8  Investigative journalism presupposes some level of investigation.
9  She has a nice turn of phrase which should serve her well in journalism.
10  "The verdict is certainly a chilling one for investigative journalism, for people who might come into information that they believe should be part of the public discourse."
11  Everybody has their favourite ways of breaking journalism into categories —tabloid vs. broadsheet, broadcast vs. print, sensational vs. thoughtful and so on.
12  That became the lodestar of his journalism, and was soon embraced by a generation.
13  He kept a journal of his wanderings across Asia.
14  His work received only a tiny mention in the journal; he deserves better.
15  The publishers planned to produce the journal on a weekly basis.