Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One whose occupation is journalism.
- noun One who keeps a journal.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The writer of a journal or diary.
- noun A person who conducts a public journal or regularly writes for one; a newspaper editor, critic, or reporter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete One who keeps a journal or diary; a diarist.
- noun One whose occupation is to write for any of the public news media, such as newspapers, magazines, radio, television, or internet; also, an editorial or other professional writer for a periodical.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun originally The keeper of a person
journal , who writes in it regularly - noun One whose
occupation or isjournalism , originally only writing in the printed press. - noun A
reporter , whoprofessionally does living reporting on news andcurrent events .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a writer for newspapers and magazines
- noun someone who keeps a diary or journal
Etymologies
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Examples
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Mr. Guttenplan insists on treating Izzy Stone as not just a talented reporter — only a journalist could write so worshipfully of another journalist — but as a heroic figure whose dedication to the truth should shine like a beacon in dark times.
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Thus he reminds us that the journalist is, in the literal and derivative sense, a _journalist_, while the missionary is an eternalist.
Among Famous Books John Kelman 1896
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That's the term journalist Charles Seife came up with to describe deliberately misleading numbers.
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That's the term journalist Charles Seife came up with to describe deliberately misleading numbers.
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That's the term journalist Charles Seife came up with to describe deliberately misleading numbers.
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That's the term journalist Charles Seife came up with to describe deliberately misleading numbers.
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I think, you know, the term journalist does imply some skill, and it does imply from training, no question about it.
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I think, you know, the term journalist does imply some skill, and it does imply some training, no question about it.
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But what happens when you take away the label journalist and just call the person a witness?
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Globe and Mail journalist (and I use the term journalist very loosely) Konrad Yakabuski even decided that the time was right to break out the "Danny Chavez" rhetoric once again and to slam the province for ensuring that its resources are not sold off to the highest bidder so Abitibi could continue to profit from the province even after it has closed its doors.
Canada Free Press 2009
kewpid commented on the word journalist
Less trusted than politicians.
June 3, 2008
asativum commented on the word journalist
But see Thomas Jefferson on the relative merits of newspapers and government. (Before he ran the government and tried to censor newspapers, of course.)
June 3, 2008