And, some say, Republicans are simply better at working the news media, getting their message across, appealing to the journalistic conventions that favor conflict and controversy.

It is not the most original journalistic convention.

Pundits are not born but are made by the media, often to articulate opinions that reporters wouldn't mind delivering if journalistic conventions allowed.

As a rare exception to the usual journalistic convention, East, not South, is the declarer.

Goldfarb has performed a good deed by turning a journalistic convention on its head and making him the center of this book.

(We are aware that you don't need to be told that, but there are journalistic conventions to follow, you know.)

Television news has always had its stars, from Walter Cronkite to Barbara Walters, but until recently they operated more or less within journalistic conventions.

All the litigation was for the sake of image and because the journalistic conventions required it.

Is there some silly literary or journalistic convention that decrees that integers less than 10 should be expressed as words?

Unconstrained by journalistic conventions, bloggers are blurring the lines between public events and ordinary social interactions and changing the way we date, work, teach and live.