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journalist

[ jur-nl-ist ]

noun

  1. a person who practices the occupation or profession of journalism.
  2. a person who keeps a journal, diary, or other record of daily events.


journalist

/ ˈdʒɜːnəlɪst /

noun

  1. a person whose occupation is journalism
  2. a person who keeps a journal


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Word History and Origins

Origin of journalist1

First recorded in 1685–95; journal + -ist

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Example Sentences

Scott Morris is an investigative journalist based in Oakland, California.

Digital tools help civic movements, journalists, and political challengers.

We divvied up the design of the individual graphics across our team of visual journalists.

It would also impact businesses, journalists, and researchers who equally rely on the platform to do their work with people and entities in China.

The agency also collected information on journalists who published leaked documents.

I was a journalist in New York City for the last of his three gubernatorial terms, a little more.

“He literally went underground to hold services,” Moscow-based dissident and journalist Victor Davidoff said in an email.

So, the arrival of a foreign journalist in Belgika merits a town meeting.

She arranged for me to meet a student journalist, so that I could tell one of the student newspapers my story.

On December 16th, the journalist Barrett Brown will be sentenced before a judge in Dallas, Texas.

Play-writing is a luxury to a journalist, as insidious as golf and much more expensive in time and money.

Tibbie Birse in the Burial is great, but I think it was a journalist that got in the word “official.”

One of these had been a grocer, another a foreman employed by a gas company, and another a journalist.

But the American journalist, whatever his taste may be, cannot afford to address himself to so small an audience.

Britten was an experienced journalist, and I had most of the necessary instincts for the business.

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