Journalist defined
Journalist is the person who dedicates itself to the media, in anyone of its forms. Written press, radio , television or any media. The journalist dedicates itself basically to the search of information, tendencies, topics of public interest, personalities, and to his later diffusion. A journalist resorts to trustworthy and verifiable journalistic sources. Thus it elaborates its news articles, that can take several forms for their diffusion: oral, written, visual.
Several principles exist that guide the work of the journalist, main of which it is the respect by the truth, the rigor in the search of the trustworthy and verifiable information. In general, good journalist to whom she obtains excellent information, brief and exact considers itself in the smaller possible time.
The journalist concept includes visual reporters, publishers, journalists like photographers, graphical artÃstas, designers.
With the digital revolution three types have arisen from journalism: journalism traditional, journalism participativo (seen in the call Web 2,0 where citizen they generate his own channels of distribution like the Blog), and the citizen media which it is used by the traditional means that they ask for of the citizenship to share with the average noticas which they happen in his surroundings with information of audio, photos or videos.
Also the use of the term is becoming general Journalist to designate to the person who dedicates itself on sale of written press and similar.