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
Examples of journalist in a Sentence
a journalist who has won awards for two of his feature stories
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Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 13 Sep. 2025
There’s corruption, cover-ups, a tabloid journalist (Danny DeVito) whispering in people’s ears, and a Veronica Lake lookalike named Lynn (Kim Basinger, who won an Oscar for her performance) who’s caught in the middle of everything.
—Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
A day later, one of the journalists allegedly found that his personal Proton Mail account had also been suspended.
—Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 13 Sep. 2025
Speach will join journalist Ernie Dumas and civil rights activist Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine, in a conversation moderated by Stephens at noon Wednesday in Stanley Russ Hall 103.
—Eric E. Harrison, Arkansas Online, 13 Sep. 2025
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Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 13 Sep. 2025
There’s corruption, cover-ups, a tabloid journalist (Danny DeVito) whispering in people’s ears, and a Veronica Lake lookalike named Lynn (Kim Basinger, who won an Oscar for her performance) who’s caught in the middle of everything.
—Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
A day later, one of the journalists allegedly found that his personal Proton Mail account had also been suspended.
—Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 13 Sep. 2025
Speach will join journalist Ernie Dumas and civil rights activist Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine, in a conversation moderated by Stephens at noon Wednesday in Stanley Russ Hall 103.
—Eric E. Harrison, Arkansas Online, 13 Sep. 2025
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“Journalist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/journalist. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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journalist
noun
jour·nal·ist
ˈjərn-ᵊl-əst
: an editor of or writer for a print or digital news medium
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