journalist
noun
jour·nal·ist
ˈjər-nə-list 
1
a
: a person engaged in journalism
especially
: a writer or editor for a news medium
b
: a writer who aims at a mass audience
2
: a person who keeps a journal
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Examples of journalist in a Sentence
a journalist who has won awards for two of his feature stories
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On the way to visit her, New York Times journalists passed a Buddhist pagoda balanced, golden and delicate, on a rocky outcrop.
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Hannah Beech Adam Ferguson, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2024
Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.
—Jesse Bedayn, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2024
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“Journalist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/journalist. Accessed 4 May. 2024.
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journalist
noun
jour·nal·ist
ˈjərn-ᵊl-əst
: an editor of or writer for a newspaper or magazine or radio and television news
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