a. (sb.) [f. prec. + -IC.]
1. Of or pertaining to journalists or journalism; connected or associated with journalism.
1829. Carlyle, Misc., Germ. Playwrights, I. 297. The journalistic office seems quite natural to him.
1879. Geo. Eliot, Theo. Such, ii. 42. Journalistic guides of the popular mind.
1882. C. Pebody, Eng. Journalism, xii. 87. The old habits of the journalist, the old journalistic way of looking at public questions … still distinguish his speeches.
2. Addicted to journalism. rare.
1833. Westm. Rev., Jan., 195. ‘The Frenchman,’ he [a French writer] again remarks, ‘is beyond all others journalistic.’ Ibid. England may be maintained to be as ‘journalistic’ as any part of the globe.
B. as sb. in pl. Journalistics, matters pertaining to journalism; the practice of journalism. nonce-use.
1829. Carlyle, German Playwr., Misc. (1842), II 96. It is a well known fact in Journalistics, that a man may not only live, but support wife and children by his labours, in this line, years after the brain (if there ever was any) has been completely abstracted, or reduced by time and hard usage into a state of dry powder.
