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Gaslight Journalism 

Gaslight journalism is when a journalist write inflammatory article or review bomb any personality/company by falsely accusing them of discrimination or try to get dirt on them by finding something negative in their past and run their article repeatedly to making the victim believe they are really guilty. They do this force the person/company to hire people who only believe in point of view of gaslight journalist or sometime hire the service of journalist itself. They can even manipulate them toward funding particular organisation or even political party.
Guy1- Remember that self proclaimed journalist who accused gaming company of being ultra sexist and racist?
Guy2- Yeah! what happened?
Guy1- Today he/she asked that company to hire her/him as "Consultant and expert of these issue"
Guy2- lol, thats gaslight journalism. Those companies ain't that stupid!
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frowny-face journalism 

A subset of the more general human interest story, frowny-face journalism takes some boring, abstract, impersonal policy change or social problem, takes a big photo of some sad children whose playcentre is closing, an old couple who are being forced out of their subsidised housing or, in this case, a recently unemployed man losing his home(s). This way, readers automatically know what to think about the story - generally 'awwwww'.
"Did you read that article about the sad children whose playcentre was bulldozed down and replaced with a right-wing lobby group headquarters?"

"Was it Frowny-face journalism"

"it made me go awwww"

journalist 

An individual who lazily aggregates related social commentary under the guise of reporting news.
This journalist has copied the Twitter trending feed.
journalist by Random Netizen May 18, 2018

journalisming 

hacktivism, perpetrated most often by progressive cheerleaders disguising themselves as journalists
The New York Times is great at journalisming
journalisming by KM_C+C April 28, 2020
When a group or individual likes to take long journeys or treks to get to a certain place.
Did he really walk all the way here? He's a journer!
journer by kodster330 June 28, 2010

frowny-face journalism 

Frowny-face journalism is a subset of the more general human interest story, which takes some boring, abstract, impersonal policy change or social problem, uses a large photo to illustrate the sadness of the story (e.g.crying children whose playcentre is closing or an old couple who are being forced out of their subsidised housing). As a consequence, readers automatically know what to think about the story - generally 'awwwww'. This is bad enough in itself, but there is an added danger: that of taking the analogy between the sad individual and the social issue too far.
Reading such stories is a common cause of news-rage
Example of a frowny-face journalism piece from the New Zealand Herald "Bruce Burgess, 60 years old and a qualified engineer, has been busy his entire adult life. Aside from a couple of years overseas in the early 1970s, he has worked, paid his taxes and saved his money.
His wife Jo has held down regular work as an office administrator and accounts person. Neither of them smoke, they don't take extravagant holidays, and drink only occasionally."
It makes you go "awwww"

Journalista 

A person dedicated to the persuit of writing and journalism with a particular interest in the highest quality of writing, debate and cutting edge trends in new media.

Developed from recent lexicon Fashionista meaning dedicated follower of fashion.
- Damn I sent this girl I really fancy a text and she sent it back to me with corrections, thentweeted it with corrections and put it on her Facebook page!

Ooh that girl is a real Journalista
Journalista by HSutton February 12, 2010