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journalist

journalist

4 3.0
A person who writes their daily thoughts and experiences in a diary
  • noun
  • /ˈdʒɜrnəlɪst/
  • Archaic
translation icon : autor de diarios
  • Every night, she would sit down to write in her journalist about her day at school.

Examples

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The journalist meticulously documented the events of the protests in her personal diary.

Synonyms

blogger
vsjournalist
  • Texting
308 2.2

A person who writes posts on a website to share ideas or stories

records private personal entries regularly for personal use rather than publishing them
diarist
vsjournalist
7 5.9

A person who writes a diary regularly to record daily thoughts and events

is the same idea but uses a different label
diary keeper
vsjournalist
3.7

A person who writes in a diary regularly to record thoughts and events

is the same practice but named with a shorter or single-word term

Compounds

2 3.4

A person who reports news on radio or television

yellow journalist
  • Literature
1 7.7

A reporter who writes exaggerated or shocking stories to attract readers

7.4

A journalist who finds and reports dishonest behaviour in politics or business

How Regular

diarist
7 5.9
journalist
  • Archaic
4 3.0

Surface Forms

journalist singular
journalists plural

Morphology

journalist = journal (transparent) = journal + ist

Formed from 'journal' + '-ist'; someone who keeps a journal is directly describable by this composition, though this sense is less common than 'reporter'.

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.