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Food journalism is a field of journalism that focuses on news and current events related to food, its production, and the cultures of producing and consuming that food. Typically, food journalism includes a scope broader than the work of food critics, who analyze restaurants and their products, and is similar to a sub-genre of "food writing", which documents the experience and history of food. [1]

Food journalism often explores the impact of current events on food, such as how the Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the food industry, or larger issues, such as impacts of climate change on food production. [2] Increasingly, these themes overlap with public health journalism, political journalism, and economic journalism. [3] This expands on themes traditional to food criticism, which has tended to focus on fine dining and other kinds of food writing, like cookbook writing. [4] These themes are similar to the themes covered in agricultural journalism, which focuses on the agriculture industry for agricultural audiences.

The contemporary field of food journalism grew in the mid-20th century, especially as issues like food rationing during and after World War II. [5] In the United States, the Association of Food Journalists provides professional standards and a code of ethics. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ "From Source to Table: How Journalists Are Investigating Food Stories Worldwide". gijn.org. Retrieved 2024-04-10.
  2. ↑ "From Source to Table: How Journalists Are Investigating Food Stories Worldwide". gijn.org. Retrieved 2024-04-10.
  3. ↑ "From Source to Table: How Journalists Are Investigating Food Stories Worldwide". gijn.org. Retrieved 2024-04-10.
  4. ↑ "The future of food journalism: The world on a plate". BCFN Foundation: Food and Nutrition Sustainability Index. 2018-03-07. Retrieved 2024-04-10.
  5. ↑ Voss, Kimberly Wilmot (2020-07-02). "A Food Journalism Pioneer: The Story behind the First New York Times Food Writer Jane Nickerson and Her Food Section, 1942-1957". Journalism History. 46 (3): 248–264. doi:10.1080/00947679.2020.1757568. ISSN   0094-7679.
  6. ↑ Journalists, Association of Food (2021-09-08). "Association of Food Journalists' Code of Ethics". Poynter. Retrieved 2024-04-10.
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