Literature and Journalism

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MASENO UNIVERSITY

FACULTY : ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

DEPARTMENT : LINGUISTICS, LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE

UNIT CODE: ALI 805

UNIT TITLE: LITERATURE AND JOURNALISM

TASK: Difference between Literature and Journalism

PRESENTED BY: JULIE E. OGONYA

REG. NO.: PG/MA/063/2009

PRESENTED TO: DR, KITCHE MAGAK

DATE: NOVEMBER, 2009.

MASENO

INTRODUCTION
Literature and journalism are two genres that are interrelated and intertwined because literature borrows heavily from journalism and journalism borrows heavily from literature as well. Sometimes it gets problematic distinguishing literature from journalism, more so with the emergence of narrative journalism.
According to Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary, literature refers to pieces of writing that are valued as works of art, especially novels, plays and poems (in contrast to technical books and newspapers, magazines, etc.). The same dictionary defines journalism as the work of collecting and writing news stories for newspapers, magazines, radio or television.
In this paper, an attempt is going to be made to show the differences between literature and journalism.

Differences between Literature and Journalism The difference between literature and journalism can be seen from the definitions of the two genres where literature is defined as “pieces of writing that are valued as works of art”. Art refers to “the use of imagination to express ideas or feelings” (Hornby, 2005). The key