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Cultural journalism explores events and examines culture, society, and communities to understand broader contexts and draw conclusions. It examines traditions and keeps them alive. Cultural journalism differs from general news reporting by taking a more multi-disciplinary perspective and focusing on culture, entertainment, arts, values and popular culture rather than just facts of events. Cultural reporting today focuses on the personal lives of celebrities and other notable or newsworthy people through gossip columns and tabloids.

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Cultural journalism explores events and examines culture, society, and communities to understand broader contexts and draw conclusions. It examines traditions and keeps them alive. Cultural journalism differs from general news reporting by taking a more multi-disciplinary perspective and focusing on culture, entertainment, arts, values and popular culture rather than just facts of events. Cultural reporting today focuses on the personal lives of celebrities and other notable or newsworthy people through gossip columns and tabloids.

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Our internet culture, like the internet itself, is always changing.

Whether through casual


references to the latest meme or through finding sources to corroborate claims in an essay,
our internet culture has and will continue to influence the way we communicate and interact
with one another, both in person and online.

Cultural journalism’ is used as an umbrella term for media reporting and debating on
culture, including the arts, value, politics, popular culture, the culture industries, and
entertainment.

A reporter writes when, where, why and how an event happened. Generally speaking we read
what a reporter has to say in the daily newspaper. We are told the facts about fires, murders,
car accidents, births and deaths. A cultural journalist, on the other hand, explores events within
his culture. He or she examines the cultural, societal and community context in which a broad
range of things happen. A cultural journalist explores currents within society, and draws
conclusions. Cultural Journalism is an examination of ourselves. It is also about traditions:
identifying them, writing about them and keeping them alive. The term, as least to my
knowledge, was coined by Eliot Wigginton, a High School English teacher, teaching in rural
Georgia. 

Culture reporting
The term “The Culture Beat” refers to the way a newspaper will assign reporters to
cover various sites where news originates-city hall, the police reports, sports,
entertainment, local, etc.
Culture reporting is characterized by its punchy style, rough language, and
ostensible disregard for conventional journalistic writing forms and customs. The
reporter attempts to present a multi-disciplinary perspective on a particular story,
drawing from popular culture, sports, political, philosophical and literary sources.
It is styled eclectic or untraditional. Culture reporting remains a feature of popular
magazines. It has a good deal of entertainment value.
Culture reporting also focuses on the personal lives of people, primarily celebrities,
including movie and stage actors, musical artists, models and photographers, other
notable people in the entertainment industry, as well as people who seek attention,
such as politicians, and people thrust into the attention of the public, such as people
who do something newsworthy.

Culture reporting today is the province of newspaper gossip columnists and gossip
magazines and has become the focus of national tabloid newspapers .  It differs
from feature writing in that it focuses on people who are either already famous or
are especially attractive, and in that it often covers celebrities obsessively, to the
point of these journalists behaving unethically in order to provide coverage.
Paparazzi, photographers who would follow celebrities incessantly to obtain
potentially embarrassing photographs, have come to characterize celebrity
journalism.

It is the most common kind of reporting where reporters are placed at the most
strategic news-breaking points like hospitals, courtrooms, police headquarters,
airports, railway stations, universities, government and corporate offices and health
and recreation centers. Unlike editorial writing, the culture reporting is impersonal.
A culture reporter is should essentially be an honest storyteller, who should rise
above his prejudices and subjectivity. He should be fair and impartial and present
in all aspects of the story. Complete objectivity may be required as the primary job
of a reporter in any beat is to tell the truth.

What is cultural journalism? The primary concern of cultural journalism is with


the arts and creative work, and with the individuals, institutions and policies
that make or enable that work. The arts are usually understood to include
literature, visual arts, music, film, theatre and dance, photography,
architecture and design. They cover both ‘high culture’ (many of the traditional
art forms) and ‘popular culture’ (once known as folk art). Culture also extends
to mass entertainment in the form of popular films, radio, television and
computer games. A broader definition might include everything from
gardening and gastronomy to urban planning and innovative tech startups.
Culture art reporting is the area of specialization in presenting to readers/viewers all kinds of activities
realized by the society within culture and art as the news. Development level of the society as a social
infrastructure unit has direct proportion between the interest shown to cultural and artistic activities
and development of culture art journalism. Doing journalism in the field of culture is pleasure giving as
much as it has difficulty. Its difficulty derives from its area containing considerably wide knowledge
accumulation. There is the requirement to have knowledge in the basic areas such as archeology, art
history, history, anthropology, sociology and fine arts. Journalist must be able to ask questions and
he/she must know few of the basic information in order to be able to make research, otherwise it is
almost impossible for him/her to put together an even seen by him/her and to be able to take out the
news from it. At the same time, correspondent must have adequate level of intellectual accumulation in
order to have the correct perception and transfer of the concepts. For example when the correspondent
working in the field of culture art forms the news of an exhibition visited by him/her first expresses
his/her own observations. Together with his/her observations, he/she completes the news in the
direction of the information obtained from the person or institution. Communication channels of the
journalists between the institutions providing information to them must be open. Culture art
correspondent must have connections with the leading establishments and institutions of this area such
as the culture centers, universities, foundations and associations, ministry, local administrations,
consulates and exhibitions. Culture-art reporting contains the news covering every branch of the art
such as literature, cinema, theater, music, plastic arts. By being different from the other pages, culture
art pages also contains criticism articles

Journalists specialized in the area of culture and art are in advantageous position when compared with
the journalists working in the other areas because they do not encounter an apprehension related with
time. Since culture art agenda mostly becomes clearly beforehand, correspondent can spread his/her
article to days. For example, the day of doing an exhibition or art fair is determined before,
consequently correspondent has time to do the searches related with the topic. For this reason,
journalists working in culture-art area have more comfortable working possibility

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