journalist
Other forms: journalists
A journalist is a person whose job involves writing nonfiction stories for newspapers, magazines, or online news sites. If you are reading or hearing a news story, you have a journalist to thank for providing that story.
One type of journalist is a reporter, who researches topics and interviews people before writing a story or producing a piece for TV. Editors, photographers, and columnists can also be described as journalists, particularly if they work for a newspaper. Another kind of journalist is a person who regularly writes in a journal or diary. Journalist comes from the Old French jornel, "day" or "day's work," which became journal, "daily publication."
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a writer for newspapers and magazinesexamples:Alfred Alistair CookeUnited States journalist (born in England in 1908)Elizabeth Merriwether GilmerUnited States journalist who wrote a syndicated column of advice to the lovelorn (1870-1951)Horace GreeleyUnited States journalist with political ambitions (1811-1872)Edgar Albert GuestUnited States journalist (born in England) noted for his syndicated homey verse (1881-1959)Walter LippmannUnited States journalist (1889-1974)Henry Louis MenckenUnited States journalist and literary critic (1880-1956)John ReedUnited States journalist who reported on the October Revolution from Petrograd in 1917; founded the Communist Labor Party in America in 1919; is buried in the Kremlin in Moscow (1887-1920)Elizabeth Cochrane Seamanmuckraking United States journalist who exposed bad conditions in mental institutions (1867-1922)William Lawrence ShirerUnited States broadcast journalist who was in Berlin at the outbreak of World War II (1904-1993)Sir Henry Morton StanleyWelsh journalist and explorer who led an expedition to Africa in search of David Livingstone and found him in Tanzania in 1871; he and Livingstone together tried to find the source of the Nile River (1841-1904)Joseph Lincoln SteffensUnited States journalist whose exposes in 1906 started an era of muckraking journalism (1866-1936)Isidor Feinstein StoneUnited States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989)Theodore Harold WhiteUnited States political journalist (1915-1986)Alexander WoollcottUnited States drama critic and journalist (1887-1943)types:broadcast journalista journalist who broadcasts on radio or televisioncorrespondent, newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newswriter, pressmana journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast mediagazetteera journalist who writes for a gazettephotojournalista journalist who presents a story primarily through the use of photographssob sistera journalist who specializes in sentimental storiesforeign correspondenta journalist who sends news reports and commentary from a foreign country for publication or broadcastnewspaper columnista columnist who writes for newspaperswar correspondenta journalist who sends news reports and commentary from a combat zone or place of battle for publication or broadcast
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someone who keeps a diary or journalsynonyms: diarist, diary keeperexamples:Samuel PepysEnglish diarist whose diary contained detailed descriptions of 17th century disasters in England (1633-1703)type of:writera person who is able to write and has written something
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