Enterprise journalism is reporting that is not generated by news or a press release, but rather generated by a reporter or news organization based on developed sources. Tied to "shoe-leather" reporting and "beat reporting," enterprise journalism gets the journalist out of the office and away from the traditional news makers. It also enlists some of the traditional traits of good investigative reporting, such as reading documents.
Enterprise journalism does not involve reporting which is based purely on press releases or news conferences. On the other hand, this kinds of reporting involves stories where a reporter unearths one on his/her own, a lot of people refer to these as ‘scoops. The enterprise reporting goes ahead of just reporting events, it discovers the forces that shape such events.
Recognizing the essence of enterprise journalism, Philadelphia started the enterprise journalism awards program. J-Lab has developed an awards program for enterprise reporting which is aimed at helping enterprise projects get off the ground and discover collaboration options among the region’s increasing number of news creators and distributors.
Famous quotes containing the words enterprise and/or journalism:
“Huck was always willing to take a hand in any enterprise that offered entertainment and required no capital, for he had a troublesome superabundance of that sort of time which is not money.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)