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The particular kind of English that newspapers write in — and the word is nearly always an insult. It names the habits reporters fall into when they need to say a lot in a small space: short dramatic words that no one uses in speech ('probe' for investigation, 'slam' for criticise, 'blast', 'vow', 'axe', 'bid'), people who are never simply named but are always 'tragic mum' or 'love rat', crowds that 'slam' and talks that are 'crisis talks'. To call a piece of writing journalese is to say it sounds second-hand and overheated, made of phrases that arrived ready-made instead of being thought out. Teachers and editors use the word as a warning. It belongs to a small family of words built the same way for a group's own tired language — legalese for lawyers, for governments, computerese, and the best-known of them, gobbledygook's cousin bureaucratese.
新聞腔、報紙體（貶義）——指記者那種浮誇、公式化的用語。和 legalese（法律腔）、officialese（官腔）是同一類詞
組成journal + -ese. The ending -ese normally tells you where a language comes from (Japanese, Portuguese, Chinese). Attached to a job or an institution, it makes a joke of that: it treats the group's writing as if it were a foreign language of its own — and a tiresome one.
同家族的字
- journalthe noun it is built on: a newspaper or periodical
- legalesethe same mocking -ese ending, for the dense language of lawyers
- officialesesame pattern again, for the empty language of official documents
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
journalesenoun/ˌd͡ʒɜː.nəˈliːz/
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A style of writing used in some newspapers and magazines, characterized by cliché, hyperbolic language, use of some vocabulary items that are mostly confined to this genre, and clipped syntax.
- We write journalese out of habit, sometimes from misguided training, and to sound urgent, authoritative and, well, journalistic. But it doesn't do any of that.
- The veteran newspaper columnist, Keith Waterhouse, identifies two versions of this journalese. The first is officialese. It can be found everywhere […] The second version, which he calls tabloidese, is characterised by bolted-together monosyllables and sensationalism. Both types of journalese have this in common: people don't speak like that.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。