journalistic

Journalistic means in the manner of news writing. Short sentences, facts first, and the important thing at the top.

It describes both a style and a standard, and the second is where the word does its serious work: journalistic standards, journalistic integrity, journalistic sources that are protected by law. Used of prose it can be faint criticism, since calling a novel journalistic suggests it reports rather than imagines. The noun journalism covers the whole trade, and a journalist is anybody who practises it, from a war correspondent to a local reporter.