Journal
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This article is about the journal as a written medium. For other uses, see Journal (disambiguation).
A journal (through French from late Latin diurnalis, daily) has several related meanings:
- a daily record of events or business; a private journal is usually referred to as a diary.
- a newspaper or other periodical, in the literal sense of one published each day;
- many publications issued at stated intervals, such as magazines, or scholarly 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, most often 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.
The word "journalist" for one whose business is writing for the public press has been in use since the end of the 17th century.
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The term "journal" is used in business: Journal is the book in which the transactions are entered the first time they are processed.
- a book in which an account of transactions is kept prior to a transfer to the ledger in the process of bookkeeping; or
- an equivalent to a ship's log, as a record of the daily run, such as observations, weather changes, or other events of daily importance.
