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photojournalism
noun pho·to·jour·nal·ism \ˌfō-tō-ˈjər-nə-ˌli-zəm\
: the job or activity of using photographs to report news stories in magazines or newspapers
Full Definition of PHOTOJOURNALISM
: journalism in which written copy is subordinate to pictorial usually photographic presentation of news stories or in which a high proportion of pictorial presentation is used; broadly : news photography
— pho·to·jour·nal·ist \-nə-list\ noun
— pho·to·jour·nal·is·tic \-ˌjər-nə-ˈlis-tik\ adjective
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First Known Use of PHOTOJOURNALISM
1938
Rhymes with PHOTOJOURNALISM
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