Talk:Journalist

message: I've been working on the stub for Broadcast Journalism. I'd appreciate any feedback anyone has as well as any suggestions for further expansion on the article.   —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tmac9986 (talk • contribs) 01:00, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Feedback 

message: Anyone heard of him? Album: Sribes of life. He's an underground rapper from Philadelphia that's been around for years. 1997?
:That's a matter for disambiguation; has nothing to do with this article or its content. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont]  ‹(-¿-)› 18:02, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Journalist (the artist) should be added.. 

message: The list of "contemporary journalists" is, IMHO, getting out of hand. There are tens of thousands of people around the world working as journalists who are, in some sense, notable, in that thousands of people read their work regularly. If we try to stick every single one of these journalists here, it will be a list beyond measure. 
We're starting to get some questionable entries - e.g., Eric Ellis, who has written in some international publications, but so have lots of people - but drawing a line will be very hard. Personally, I'd kill the whole list, as well as the "internet journalists" list, which is increasingly arbirtray. Leave it at historical figures. Any thoughts? - DavidWBrooks 19:42, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, no response! OK, then, tomorrow I'm going to kill off the subsections titled "contemporary journalists" and "Internet journalists" and replace them with some sort of explanation. OK? - DavidWBrooks 15:00, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  OK, then. - DavidWBrooks 13:40, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

text: This article is too short and rudimentary to support subarticles yet; see WP:SUMMARY. David's concern that it would "be a list beyond measure" has its merits; we have categories for a reason, and any such list (in this article or as a separate one) should be strictly limited to journalists notable enough to have their own articles here. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont]  ‹(-¿-)› 17:59, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of journalists 

message: ...because I don't like publicly-synthesized culture and the policies that go with it, but I'm starting to add Canadian journalists partly in order to make Wikipedia have a wider base in the Great White North (which has a much higher per-capita internet usage and high-bandwidth users than the US and is among the most interconnected countries in the world, and no I'm not bragging just stating the sad facts).  The other reason is that they have high profiles in provincial and civic history here and often nationally and are also literary and histiographical figures - some of them outright historical figures - that tie into all the various Canadian wikipages.Skookum1 05:56, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Excellent, but try to hold back the hyperbole, even if well-written and amusing ("glitteringly seedy"). That stuff can go in the person's main article, but this is a list that is always on the brink of getting out of control. We need to keep things very short. - DavidWBrooks 13:24, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

text: No need to justify it. Canadian contributions should be recognized. --Jgreat 18:32, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: I hate to be CanCon about this...

message: since this is in the article ... Depending on the context, the term journalist also includes various types of editors and visual journalists, such as photographers, graphic artists, and page designers. ... I'd say "no" - DavidWBrooks 16:43, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge with reporter? 

message: I question the inclusion of Bill O'Rielly in a list of journalists. Was he ever anything except a blowhard? Gladmax 01:56, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Although hyperbolic, there is a real point here: how to make the distinction between "journalists" and "presenters" or "hosts"?  There is no question that O'Reilly is a well-known presenter and host, but is he a journalist?  (Paula Zahn is a presenter and not a journalist, because she does not get involved in producing segments; Anderson Cooper does, and so he is both a presenter and a journalist.)  JTBurman 18:52, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It is my thought that Bill O'Rielly is not a journalist, and neither are most people on FoxNews.  Fox News "presents" more Commentary than news, so I feel O'Rielly should be removed from the list. 
Point02Dollars 21:56, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This is a political rant - even if it's one I agree with. (It might be slightly more effective if the ranters spelled his name right.) Walter Winchell, Pauline Kael, Walter Lippmann, Herb Caen, Walter Cronkite and a number of others should be deleted under this definition - except that most wikipedia editors are too young to know who they are. - DavidWBrooks 22:39, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bill O'Rielly????????? 

message: "A journalist (also called a newspaperman)"
Seriously? Petitphoque (talk) 17:43, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, that's pretty lame.  "Newspaperman" is a real term (and an increasingly obsolete one), but only for newspaper journalists. There are many other terms (some media specific, some not) that should also be accounted for (reporter, news announcer, sportswriter, etc.) — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont]  ‹(-¿-)› 17:52, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: In the context of this article, "newspaperman" should be included as a historical reference if at all. It's an anachronism and is media- and gender-specific. I will remove it from the definition in the lede section, as there haven't been any comments in support of including it in this discussion, which dates from May 2008. Craig Hicks (talk) 13:55, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Way early, he was called a "newspaper man," with a space. BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 18:37, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Newspaperman 

message: Reporter should be merged into Journalist perhaps as a section. The miserable, largely unsourced stub at Reporter cannot stand on its own, and even Journalist has problems in that direction. They would be stronger as a single article.  The Reporter article claims that reporters are somehow distinct from other forms of journalist, but this claim is not sourced in any way, and there is not enough material to support a separate article.  Merge for now, and if the "Reporters" section here become so large that a split is warranted, then split them, when the material is properly developed and sourced. This merge was first proposed three years ago, and the objection was that reporters are distinct enough to deserve their own article. To date, nothing has actually been done to make this happen. It is still a very poor stub, and does not sourcedly justify the split. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont]  ‹(-¿-)› 17:49, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge proposed 

message: can someone add something about superman is a journalist Talk to Magibon 14:37, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  superman 

message: There were too many, especially in relation to the rest of the article, so I deleted most. Here they are:
* Associated Press Managing Editors
* Association of Professional Journalists
* Chartered Institute of Journalists (UK)
* Forum and social network for writers and journalists
* The Project for Excellence in Journalism
* The Committee of Concerned Journalists
* International Federation of Journalists
* Canadian Association of Journalists
* National Union of Journalists (UK)&(ROI)
* Media, Arts and Entertainment Alliance (Australia)
* Journalist Association of India.
* CubReporters.org
* Career Advice on Broadcast Journalist and other careers
* JournoWorld website for journalists
* Media Club of Pakistan
* Union syndicale des journalistes CFDT
* Mass Media News
* A biographical dictionary of British & Irish Journalists, 1800-1960
:I did that on March 4, but I forgot to sign. Maurreen (talk) 16:28, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links 

message: Do you have to be a member of a union to be a "journalist"? ... Andrew Marr says Bloggers aren't journalists. -- According to Daily Telegraph report Marr, speaking at Cheltenham Literature Festival, said that “citizen journalism strikes me as nothing to do with journalism at all”.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.155.18.91 (talk) 05:44, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Some sources, if anybody wants them: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=bloggers+as+journalists&t=hf&ia=web . BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 18:39, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Are Bloggers Journalists?