journalist
- noun
- /ˈdʒɜrnəlɪst/
- Archaic
- Every night, she would sit down to write in her journalist about her day at school.
Examples
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Especially for the fledgling writer/journalist who gets thrown a library story for the first time.
Blog text (18) -
But your mama, the budding journalist, wrote to me every day.
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But the book, Life with Cancer, is more about Lauren's work as a social journalist than her cancer, he explained.
Blog text (12) -
It is written as a logbook that might have been kept by a journalist of the day.
Academic text (1992) -
Soon after I arrived at the paper, Frederica asked me to cover the conviction of J. S. Tissainayagam, a Tamil journalist who was sentenced in August 2009 to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment.
Academic text (2011) -
The Diary of Hamlet Garcia, written by Catalan journalist and writer Paulino Masip (1899-1963) during his exile in Mexico.
Academic text (2018) -
The diarist goes back to the previous autumn, when the journalist and photographer Into Inha had asked her to translate a poem by Zachris Topelius to be set to music by Sibelius.
Academic text (1999) -
One of the most notable examples was On the Equality of the Human Races (1885), by Joseph-Anténor Firmin, a Haitian anthropologist, journalist, and politician.
Academic text (2010) -
As a child, he dreamed of becoming a journalist and writing about his adventures.
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The journalist meticulously documented the events of the protests in her personal diary.
Synonyms
A person who writes posts on a website to share ideas or stories
A person who writes a diary regularly to record daily thoughts and events
A person who writes in a diary regularly to record thoughts and events
Compounds
- Literature
A reporter who writes exaggerated or shocking stories to attract readers
- Literature
A journalist who finds and reports dishonest behaviour in politics or business
How Regular
- Archaic
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Journalist also links to the word journal, which means a 'daily' record or diary. A helpful way to remember this second meaning is to think of a journalist as someone who keeps a journal, writing daily notes about events and feelings.