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Journalism is a profession that involves journalists or writers in gathering materials with reference to factual and ongoing events of public concern and disseminating their findings through public media (Harcup 2009). In general, journalism comprises five typical traits or values: public service, objectivity, autonomy, immediacy, and ethics (Deuze 2005). Nowadays, prime-time news bulletins usually devote most of the coverage to domestic news, and tourism is treated more like international reports to inform the public about the Other (Fursich and Kavoori 2001). In so doing, journalism is closely linked to tourism through destination image formation, with news reports and television travel shows enjoying higher credibility (Gartner 1993).

Similar to news gathering and editing, it is inevitable to frame a destination in the process of image creation (Entman 1993). To frame is to make certain items, ideology, concepts, and images salient so that they can affect audience’s interpretation...

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  1. School of Hotel and Tourism Management, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 17 Science Museum Road, Hong Kong, China

    Steve Pan

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  1. University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie, USA

    Jafar Jafari

  2. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

    Honggen Xiao

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Pan, S. (2016). Journalism. In: Jafari, J., Xiao, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Tourism. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01384-8_117

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