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the practice of paying for a news story or an interview, or for exclusive broadcasting or publishing rights.

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E.J. Graff, senior fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism, is the author of What Is Marriage For?
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She was so great and it made everything click for me, because I was also interested in journalism.
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What I want to do there is build video journalism, and build out a team.
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The history of journalism is filled with hoaxes, sensationalism, and widespread misconceptions.
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Then, in May 2009, he turned to something completely different: the power of journalism.
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This was the first college journalism class offered in the United States.
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We have already seen the motives which first induced him to take up journalism.
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However, I had no money to indulge in such luxuries, so on leaving Cambridge I looked to journalism for a living.
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Thenceforward a paper war was waged between the two political divisions of journalism.
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But either there is a change in journalism, too gradual for you to remark it on the spot, or there is a change in me.
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