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*Kaiyuan Za Bao* was an official publication which first appeared in the 8th century, during the Kaiyuan era. It has been described as the first Chinese newspaper or official gazette,^[1] and also as the world's first magazine.^[2] Pictured is a remake of the publication.

Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the "news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree of accuracy. The word, a noun, applies to the occupation (professional or not), the methods of gathering information, and the organizing literary styles.

The appropriate role for journalism varies from country to country, as do perceptions of the profession, and the resulting status. In some nations, the news media are controlled by government and are not independent. In others, news media are independent of the government and operate as private industry. In addition, countries may have differing implementations of laws handling the freedom of speech, freedom of the press as well as slander and libel cases.

The proliferation of the Internet and smartphones has brought significant changes to the media landscape since the turn of the 21st century. This has created a shift in the consumption of print media channels, as people increasingly consume news through e-readers, smartphones, and other personal electronic devices, as opposed to the more traditional formats of newspapers, magazines, or television news channels. News organizations are challenged to fully monetize their digital wing, as well as improvise on the context in which they publish in print. Newspapers have seen print revenues sink at a faster pace than the rate of growth for digital revenues. (Full article...)

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The Jakarta Post is a daily English-language newspaper in Indonesia. The paper is owned by PT Bina Media Tenggara and based in the nation's capital, Jakarta.

The Jakarta Post started as a collaboration between four Indonesian media groups at the urging of Information Minister Ali Murtopo and politician Jusuf Wanandi. After the first issue was printed on 25 April 1983, it spent several years with minimal advertisements and increasing circulation. After a change in chief editors in 1991, it began to take a more vocal pro-democracy point of view. The paper was one of the few Indonesian English-language dailies to survive the 1997 Asian financial crisis and currently has a circulation of about 40,000. (Full article...)

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New York Times Co. v. United States, 403 U.S. 713 (1971), was a United States Supreme Court per curiam decision. The ruling made it possible for the New York Times and Washington Post newspapers to publish the then-classified Pentagon Papers without risk of government censure. The U.S. President Richard Nixon had claimed executive authority to force the Times to suspend publication of classified information in its possession. The question before the court was whether the constitutional freedom of the press under the First Amendment was subordinate to a claimed Executive need to maintain the secrecy of information. The Supreme Court ruled that First Amendment did protect the New York Times' right to print said materials.

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... that Irish journalist Doireann Ní Bhriain was given one of the final Jacob's Awards (pictured) in 1993 to commemorate her career with RTÉ Radio 1?
... that publisher Gopal Raju, considered a pioneer of ethnic media in the United States, founded India Abroad, which claims to be the oldest Indian American newspaper in North America?
... that Australian composer and ABC broadcaster William G. James dedicated his Six Australian Bush Songs to Dame Nellie Melba?

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Pauline Kael (/keɪl/; June 19, 1919 – September 3, 2001) was an American film critic who wrote for The New Yorker from 1968 to 1991. Known for her "witty, biting, highly opinionated and sharply focused" reviews, Kael's opinions often ran contrary to those of her contemporaries.

One of the most influential American film critics of her era, she left a lasting impression on the art form. Roger Ebert argued in an obituary that Kael "had a more positive influence on the climate for film in America than any other single person over the last three decades". Kael, he said, "had no theory, no rules, no guidelines, no objective standards. You couldn't apply her 'approach' to a film. With her it was all personal." In a blurb for The Age of Movies, a collection of her writings for the Library of America, Ebert wrote that "Like George Bernard Shaw, she wrote reviews that will be read for their style, humor and energy long after some of their subjects have been forgotten." Owen Gleiberman said she "was more than a great critic. She reinvented the form, and pioneered an entire aesthetic of writing." (Full article...)

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Image 1Georgiy Gongadze, Ukrainian journalist, founder of a popular Internet newspaper Ukrainska Pravda, who was kidnapped and murdered in 2000. (from Freedom of the press)
Image 2Photo and broadcast journalists interviewing government official after a building collapse (from Broadcast journalism)
Image 3Protest outside the Russian Embassy in Berlin demanding the release of Russia's political prisoners, including journalists Ivan Safronov and Maria Ponomarenko [sv], February 2024 (from Freedom of the press)
Image 4The Crawlers, London, 1876–1877, a photograph from John Thomson's Street Life in London photo-documentary (from Photojournalism)
Image 5The editorial staff of Severnyi Kray in Yaroslavl, Russia in 1900 (from Newspaper)
Image 6"Geronimo's camp before surrender to General Crook, March 27, 1886: Geronimo and Natches mounted; Geronimo's son (Perico) standing at his side holding baby." By C. S. Fly. (from Photojournalism)
Image 7Entertainment reporter A. J. Calloway interviewing Eric McCormack at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Knife Fight (from Entertainment journalism)
Image 8A girl reading a 21 July 1969 copy of The Washington Post reporting on the Apollo 11 Moon landing (from Newspaper)
Image 9News set for WHIO-TV in Dayton, Ohio. News anchors often report from sets such as this, located in or near the newsroom. (from News presenter)
Image 10Front page of The New York Times on Armistice Day, 1918 (from Newspaper)
Image 11The Telegraph printing house in Macon, Georgia, c. 1876 (from Newspaper)
Image 12International newspapers on sale in Paris (from Newspaper)
Image 13Fanciful drawing of a general store by Marguerite Martyn in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on October 21, 1906. On the far left, a group of men share reading a newspaper. (from Newspaper)
Image 14Front page of the Helsingin Sanomat (Helsinki Times) on July 7, 1904 (from Newspaper)
Image 15Brian Williams interviews Mitt Romney on July 25, 2012, during Romney's presidential campaign. (from News presenter)
Image 16Mexican journalist Rubén Espinosa was murdered, along with four women, in Mexico City after fleeing death threats in Veracruz. (from Freedom of the press)
Image 17Roger Fenton's Photographic Van, 1855, formerly a wine merchant's wagon; his assistant is pictured at the front. (from Photojournalism)
Image 18Presenter Reena Ninan interviewing politician Michael Bennet on CBS News (from News presenter)
Image 19The Statute was adopted as the constitution of the Kingdom of Italy, granting freedom of the press. (from Freedom of the press)
Image 20Newspaper and advertisement, Argentina (from Newspaper)
Image 21Newspaper Ora, in 1999, cover page (from Freedom of the press)
Image 22The office building of Tyrvään Sanomat in Sastamala, Finland (from Newspaper)
Image 23Joseph Goebbels' Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda was a driving force of suppressing freedom of the press in Nazi Germany. (from Freedom of the press)
Image 24First page of John Milton's 1644 edition of Areopagitica (from Freedom of the press)
Image 25Yomiuri Shimbun, a broadsheet in Japan credited with having the largest newspaper circulation in the world (from Newspaper)
Image 26Black-and-white photograph of a National Guardsman looking over the Washington Monument in Washington D.C., on January 21, 2021, the day after the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States (from Photojournalism)
Image 27Cumhuriyet's former editor-in-chief Can Dündar receiving the 2015 Reporters Without Borders Prize. Shortly after, he was arrested. (from Freedom of the press)
Image 28A newspaper press in Limoges, France (from Newspaper)
Image 29Freedom of the Press status 2017. (from Freedom of the press)
Image 30The data-driven journalism process. (from Data journalism)
Image 31The Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung pioneered modern photojournalism and was widely copied. Pictured, the cover of issue of 26 August 1936: a meeting between Francisco Franco and Emilio Mola. (from Photojournalism)
Image 32Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz in its Hebrew and English editions (from Newspaper)
Image 33Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was a journalist and critic but was murdered by the Saudi Government. (from Freedom of the press)
Image 34Barricades on rue Saint-Maur (1848), the first photo used to illustrate a newspaper story (from Photojournalism)
Image 35Title page of Johann Carolus' Relation from 1609, the first newspaper (from Newspaper)
Image 362023 World Press Freedom Index
  Good: 85–100 points

  Satisfactory: 70–85 points

  Problematic: 55–70 points

  Difficult: 40–55 points

  Very serious <40 points

  Not classified
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Image 37Turkish journalists protesting imprisonment of their colleagues on Human Rights Day, 10 December 2016 (from Freedom of the press)
Image 38A newsboy selling the Toronto Telegram in Canada in 1905 (from Newspaper)
Image 39Newspaper vendor, Paddington, London, February 2005 (from Newspaper)
Image 40Josef Danhauser's portrait Newspaper readers, 1840 (from Newspaper)
Image 41Soldiers in an East German tank unit reading about the erection of the Berlin Wall in 1961 in Neues Deutschland (from Newspaper)
Image 42In Migrant Mother (1936) Dorothea Lange produced the seminal image of the Great Depression. The FSA also employed several other photojournalists to document the depression. (from Photojournalism)
Image 43Leica 1, (1925)'s introduction marked the beginning of modern photojournalism. (from Photojournalism)
Image 44A journalist works on location at the Loma Prieta Earthquake in San Francisco's Marina District October 1989. (from Broadcast journalism)
Image 45Sports photojournalists at Indianapolis Motor Speedway (from Photojournalism)
Image 46The newsroom of Gazeta Lubuska in Zielona Góra, Poland (from Newspaper)
Image 47Boy destroying piano at Pant-y-Waen, South Wales, by Philip Jones Griffiths, 1961 (from Photojournalism)
Image 48Photojournalists at the 2016 Labour Party Conference in Liverpool (from Photojournalism)

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Provided I do not write about the government, religion, politics, morals, people in power, official institutions, the Opera, the other theatres, or about anybody attached to anything, I am free to print anything, subject to the inspection of two or three censors.

— Pierre Beaumarchais

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^ Canadian Library Journal, Canadian Library Association, v. 27, 1992. Digitized Dec 27, 2007 from the University of California.
^ Murphy, Lawrence William. "An Introduction to Journalism: Authoritative Views on the Profession", 1930. T. Nelson and sons Journalism. Original from the University of California. Digitized Oct 23, 2007.
^ "WAN - Newspapers: 400 Years Young!". Wan-press.org. Archived from the original on 2010-03-10. Retrieved 2012-02-21.

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[1] Canadian Library Journal, Canadian Library Association, v. 27, 1992. Digitized Dec 27, 2007 from the University of California.

[2] Murphy, Lawrence William. "An Introduction to Journalism: Authoritative Views on the Profession", 1930. T. Nelson and sons Journalism. Original from the University of California. Digitized Oct 23, 2007.

[3] "WAN - Newspapers: 400 Years Young!". Wan-press.org. Archived from the original on 2010-03-10. Retrieved 2012-02-21.

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