journalist

Definitions

1. The keeper of a personal journal, who writes in it regularly
2. The keeper of a personal journal, who writes in it regularly.
3. One whose occupation is journalism, originally only writing in the printed press
4. One whose occupation is journalism, originally only writing in the printed press.
5. A reporter, someone who professionally reports on news and current events.
6. A reporter, someone who professionally reports on news and current events

Equivalents

Examples

““There’s this terrible business to start⟳ with. Scotland Yard men in and out of the house like⟳ a jack-in-the-box! Never know⟳ where they won’t turn⟳ up next. Screaming headlines in every paper in the country—damn all journalists, I say⟳!””

“British journalists shun complete⟳ respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press⟳ barons will only defy the mighty so far.”

“A staff member of the Kuchar County Judiciary told RFA that he did not have⟳ the authority “to answer⟳ political questions of this magnitude,” when asked whether 150 people had died in No. 1 Camp, and whether the number⟳ included any government officials or other employees. “We have⟳ a county-wide directive—firstly, to never provide⟳ answers to pretend⟳ journalists, and secondly, to never take⟳ phone calls of unknown origin,” he said.”

“In 2017, Katherine Maher, then the CEO of the WMF, re-imagined the nonprofit’s mission as “top-down social justice activism and advocacy,” as journalist Ashley Rindsberg described it.”

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