Journalism Advocacy

Journalism Advocacy is a genre of journalism, which adopts and is not restricted to biased opinions. Journalism is where the writer or the publication expresses a subjective view or promotes a certain cause. 

In Western Europe, some newspapers project openly with political situations, but journalists didn’t necessarily involve advocacy. In Italy, the Il Manifesto perceives themselves as communists philosophically, but they don’t belong or follow any party; Il Manifesto functions as a worker’s cooperative. For Third World countries that became independent after WWI, journalism was an opportunity for free movements, in relation to support liberation from colonialism.

Up until the 19^th century, the press in the United States was only partisan. The press established fairness, which is now defined as the practices of corporate-commercial news media. Between the 1960s and 1970s, advocacy journalism emerged with counterculture and revolutionary political activity during its fervor.