[a. F. journalisme (1781 in Hatz.-Darm.), f. journal JOURNAL: see -ISM.]
1. The occupation or profession of a journalist; journalistic writing; the public journals collectively.
1833. Westm. Rev., Jan., 195. (Reviewing a French work ‘Du Journalisme’), ‘Journalism’ is a good name for the thing meant…. A word was sadly wanted. Ibid., 196. The power of journalism is acknowledged … to be enormous in France.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., II. I. iv. Great is Journalism. Is not every Able Editor a Ruler of the World, being a persuader of it?
1880. G. Meredith, Tragic Com. (1881), 112. Journalism for money is Egyptian bondage. No slavery is comparable to the chains of hired journalism.
a. 1881. Carlyle, in Westm. Gaz. (1894), 26 Feb., 7/1. [He [L. Stephen] remembered Carlyle … saying to a young man who told him that he wrote for the papers,] ‘Journalism is just ditchwater.’
1887. M. Arnold, in 19th Cent., May, 638. We have had opportunities of observing a new journalism which a clever and energetic man has lately invented.
1891. Pall Mall Gaz., 11 Sept., 6/1. It was Matthew Arnold who christened the ‘New Journalism’ (that much abused and much misapplied name) and identified it with Mr. Stead.
b. With a and pl. A piece of ‘journalese.’
1893. Pall Mall Gaz., 30 Jan., 7/1. A rather pleasant Indian novel, which would be better without some cheap journalisms.
2. The keeping of a journal; the practice of journalizing. rare–0.
1848. Craig, Journalism, the keeping of a journal.
