A journal
(through French from Latin diurnalis, daily) has several related meanings:
Ø a daily record of events or business;
a private journal is usually referred to as a diary
Ø a newspaper or other periodical, in
the literal sense of one published each day
Ø Many publications issued at stated
intervals, such as magazines, or scholarly journals, academic journals, or the
record of the transactions of a society, are often called journals. Although
journal is sometimes used as a synonym for "magazine", in academic
use, a journal refers to a serious, scholarly publication that is
peer-reviewed. A non-scholarly magazine written for an educated audience about
an industry or an area of professional activity is usually called a
professional magazine.
Ø The word "journalist", for
one whose business is writing for the public press and nowadays also other
media, has been in use since the end of the 17th century.
