Journalism Essays

Effects of Wikileaks and Digital Leaking on Journalism
Example essay. Last modified: 12th Jan 2024
Introduction: In 2011, Julian Assange was awarded a Walkley, Australia’s highest award for journalism.  The award was made for “contribution to journalism”.  Using one or more examples, critically discuss both the contribution and challenges presented to journalism by digital leaking in recent years....

Is Journalism Storytelling?
Example essay. Last modified: 24th Sep 2021
Introduction: Many journalists entered the profession for a simple reason – a love of storytelling. Journalism as storytelling has been found in many ways of the humanities. Storytelling is a valid way to share facts, ideas and to convince. The storytelling closely link to journalism where journalists want to reach their audience, to convince the reader that deep emotional level with their followers....

Literature Review on Compensation & Benefits
Example essay. Last modified: 16th Aug 2021
Introduction: As we know, everyone is works in expectation of some rewards; employees may see compensation as a return in an exchange between employer and themselves, as an entitlement for being an employee of the company and as a reward for a job well done....

Media coverage of the African continent
Example essay. Last modified: 2nd Aug 2021
Introduction: This thesis contemplates long standing issues surrounding media coverage of the African continent. Previous studies have shown a systematic trend amongst Western journalists to depict current events in developing nations, particularly African nations, from a negative and oversimplified perspective. ...

Privacy versus freedom of expression
Example essay. Last modified: 27th Jul 2021
Introduction: Archard claims that 'Privacy has to do with keeping personal information non-public and undisclosed.' Freedom of expression on the other hand, upholds the rights of all to express their views and opinions freely, Freedom Of Expression...

Is fake news journalism?
Example essay. Last modified: 28th Jun 2021
Introduction: Fake news is journalism, but there are those who think it devalues true journalism. The reason people think this way is because the fake news influences their audience by presenting news facts in a comedic way. Also, the real news feels threaten because it is them that are fake by not divulging the entire truth on issues....

Intercultural communication language
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Mar 2021
Introduction: A literature review refers to any collection of materials on a topic, not necessarily the great literary texts of the world. The literature review is a body of text that aims to review the critical points of current knowledge on a particular topic....

The Destruction of the News through Dishonesty and Polarization
Example essay. Last modified: 4th Nov 2020
Introduction: From 2016 to through most likely 2020 most of the country will be calling the main stream media Fake News. In all honesty it’s mostly presses fault because they lack ethical standards and, in some cases, they been caught in outright dishonest story telling...

Impact of the Watergate Scandal on Journalism
Example essay. Last modified: 4th Nov 2020
Introduction: The Watergate scandal caused major confusion in the United States and ended Nixon's Presidency. On June 17, 1972, The DNC Headquarters in Washington, D.C. was broken into. Soon after, five men were arrested and the investigators...

Elizabeth Bisland's Race Around the World by Matthew Goodman | Review
Example essay. Last modified: 4th Nov 2020
Introduction: Matthew Goodman, in his essay Elizabeth Bisland's Race Around the World gave an account of Elizabeth Bisland’s journey (race) around the world and her life in general. Bisland is a young journalist from The Cosmopolitan Magazine competing...

How Important Are Professional Foreign Correspondents Today?
Example essay. Last modified: 4th Nov 2020
Introduction: From the late Middle Ages and beyond, a network of foreign correspondents has existed across the majority of Europe, spreading news from far-flung places across a chain of set routes (Sambrook, 2010). However, there was news from abroad...

Impact of Technology on Journalism and the Production of News
Example essay. Last modified: 4th Nov 2020
Introduction: The following essay is going to deal with the concept of technological advancement and its changes. Technology is ever-changing and it has impacts on the process of news telling. The production of news and the role of the journalist will also be highlighted...

How the Media Causes Americans to Fear Immigration
Example essay. Last modified: 4th Nov 2020
Introduction: Over the past decades it’s no surprise that fear of immigration has risen to an alarming rate. But has it even actually been at a low? No it hasn’t, but you might say at times it’s not as much talked about. Then at other times it seems to be the only...

Theories of the Press - Journalism Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jun 2020
Introduction: When Frederick S. Siebert, Theodore Peterson, and Wilbur Schramm’s first introduced Theories of the Press more than 40 years ago, it constituted the most well-known attempt to clarify the link b...

A draft plan for a Feature Article
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jun 2020
Introduction: Produce a draft plan for a Feature Article on: Effects of new communications technologies on youth culture in the United Kingdom Introduction Unlike news stories which are dictated by strict style gui...

Using the Actor-Network Theory to Understand Local Journalism
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction: Introduction The first decades of the 21st century have shown to be a period of upheaval in the field of journalism and how information and news are shared between journalists and reader...

The Rise of Social Media and Online Journalism
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction: Abstract  Social media is still in its infancy, and the world of online media is continually growing. Also, the world of how and when news in the media is being reported in also con...

Journalism and Media in the Vietnam War
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction:  Since the beginning of World War II, television gradually became familiar to the American public. By the late 1950s, televisions began to be manufactured in large scale and were soon presen...

Methods to Report the Vietnam War and Influence on Public Opinions
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction:   Introduction: The Vietnam war, which is commonly known as the televised war[1] [5] was the second Indochina war, 1954-1975. It was when united states and member...

Analysis of Fake News Article
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
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Sources of news in the Media
Example essay. Last modified: 20th Aug 2018
Introduction: The evolution of the news media has presented an interesting tale to be told over the last several hundred years, and the changes have become more abundant over the last two decades with the advent of...

Analysis of War Photography
Example essay. Last modified: 2nd Jan 2018
Introduction: War photography has existed since the nineteenth century, when Roger Fenton set out to photograph the Crimean war in 1855. From the beginning of war photography questions have always been raised about...

Causes of the Crisis of Democracy
Example essay. Last modified: 2nd Jan 2018
Introduction: Twenty-five years ago, Michel J. Crozier, Samuel P. Huntington, and Joji Watanuki identified a “crisis of democracy” which painted the “bleak future for… government” Twenty-five ...

Chichén Itzá in Mexico
Example essay. Last modified: 2nd Jan 2018
Introduction: Introduction The sacred Mayan city of Chichén Itzá is located in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, about 50 miles inland from the Caribbean Coastline and about 100 miles south of Cancun, Me...

Food Policy in Malaysia
Example essay. Last modified: 2nd Oct 2017
Introduction: Introduction Malaysia is a multilingual and multicultural society. The original culture of Malaysia is come from the indigenous tribes that is been staying in the peninsular and east of Malaysia sinc...