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advocacy journalism

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Definition of advocacy journalism

: journalism that advocates a cause or expresses a viewpoint
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advocacy journalist noun

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 The magazine’s editor, Osborn Elliott, believed the package represented a move away from the objective reporting revered in this era and a rush toward a new type of advocacy journalism. — Alice George, Smithsonian, "The 1968 Kerner Commission Got It Right, But Nobody Listened," 1 Mar. 2018

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1969, in the meaning defined above

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