"新聞業，編輯或出版報紙或公共期刊"，始於1821年，最初被視爲英語中的法語詞彙，源自法語 journalisme（1781），源自 journal “每日出版物”（參見 journal）； 比較 journalist。
Where men are insulated they are easily oppressed; when roads become good, and intercourse is easy, their force is increased more than a hundred fold: when, without personal communication, their opinions can be interchanged, and the people thus become one mass, breathing one breath and one spirit, their might increases in a ratio of which it is difficult to find the measure or the limit. Journalism does this office .... ["New Monthly Magazine," London, 1831]
當人們孤立無援時，他們很容易受到壓迫； 當道路變得良好，交往變得容易時，他們的力量增加了一百倍以上：當在沒有個人交流的情況下，他們的意見可以交換，人們因此成爲一個呼吸同一氣息和精神的整體，他們的力量增加的比例很難找到度量或限制。新聞業就是這樣的工作.... ["新月刊"，倫敦，1831年]
[Géo] London was in western France covering the trial of a parricide that began in mid-afternoon. Because he had an early deadline, he telephoned a story that he was certain would take place: an angry crowd cursing the accused as he was marched to the courthouse from his holding cell at the police station. London then relaxed over lunch until he saw with dismay the guards and the prisoner coming but "not even the shadow of a gawker." His reputation at stake, he stalked to the door, cried out, "Kill him!" and returned to his table. [Benjamin F. Martin, "France in 1938"]
[Géo]倫敦在法國西部報道了一起從下午中開始的弒父案。由於他有早期的截止日期，他打電話預測了一個故事：一個憤怒的人羣咒罵被告，當他從警察局的拘留室被押送到法院時。然後，倫敦在午餐時放鬆了，直到他驚愕地看到警衛和囚犯走來，但“甚至沒有一個好奇者的影子”。他的聲譽受到威脅，他走到門口，大喊：“殺了他！”然後回到他的桌子上。[本傑明·F·馬丁，“1938年的法國”]
