journalist
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."
Definitions of journalist
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a writer for newspapers and magazines
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Alfred Alistair Cooke
United States journalist (born in England in 1908)
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Elizabeth Merriwether Gilmer
United States journalist who wrote a syndicated column of advice to the lovelorn (1870-1951)
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Horace Greeley
United States journalist with political ambitions (1811-1872)
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Edgar Albert Guest
United States journalist (born in England) noted for his syndicated homey verse (1881-1959)
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Walter Lippmann
United States journalist (1889-1974)
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Henry Louis Mencken
United States journalist and literary critic (1880-1956)
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John Reed
United 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)
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Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman
muckraking United States journalist who exposed bad conditions in mental institutions (1867-1922)
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William Lawrence Shirer
United States broadcast journalist who was in Berlin at the outbreak of World War II (1904-1993)
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Sir Henry Morton Stanley
Welsh 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)
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Joseph Lincoln Steffens
United States journalist whose exposes in 1906 started an era of muckraking journalism (1866-1936)
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Isidor Feinstein Stone
United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989)
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Theodore Harold White
United States political journalist (1915-1986)
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Alexander Woollcott
United States drama critic and journalist (1887-1943)
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broadcast journalist
a journalist who broadcasts on radio or television
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columnist, editorialist
a journalist who writes editorials
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correspondent, newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newswriter, pressman
a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media
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gazetteer
a journalist who writes for a gazette
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photojournalist
a journalist who presents a story primarily through the use of photographs
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penman, scribbler, scribe
informal terms for journalists
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sob sister
a journalist who specializes in sentimental stories
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sports writer, sportswriter
a journalist who writes about sports
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foreign correspondent
a journalist who sends news reports and commentary from a foreign country for publication or broadcast
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newspaper columnist
a columnist who writes for newspapers
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war correspondent
a 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 journal
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synonyms:
diarist, diary keeper
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examples:
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Samuel Pepys
English diarist whose diary contained detailed descriptions of 17th century disasters in England (1633-1703)
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writer
a person who is able to write and has written something
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Samuel Pepys
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