1. journalist(n = noun.person) - a writer for newspapers and magazines;
is a kind of author, writer
has particulars: broadcast journalist, columnist, editorialist, correspondent, newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newswriter, pressman, gazetteer, photojournalist, penman, scribbler, scribe, sob sister, sports writer, sportswriter, alfred alistair cooke, alistair cooke, cooke, dorothy dix, elizabeth merriwether gilmer, gilmer, greeley, horace greeley, edgar albert guest, edgar guest, guest, lippmann, walter lippmann, h. l. mencken, henry louis mencken, mencken, john reed, reed, elizabeth cochrane seaman, elizabeth seaman, nellie bly, seaman, shirer, william lawrence shirer, henry m. stanley, john rowlands, sir henry morton stanley, stanley, joseph lincoln steffens, lincoln steffens, steffens, i. f. stone, isidor feinstein stone, stone, t. h. white, theodore harold white, white, alexander woollcott, woollcott
Derived forms noun journalism2, noun journalism1
2. journalist(n = noun.person) diarist, diary keeper - someone who keeps a diary or journal;
is a kind of writer
has particulars: pepys, samuel pepys
1. One who keeps a journal or diary; a diarist. Mickle. [1913 Webster]
2. One whose occupation is to write for any of the public news media, such as newspapers, magazines, radio, television, or internet; also, an editorial or other professional writer for a periodical. [1913 Webster]
journalist, n. a person employed to write for or edit a newspaper or journal.
Derivative:
journalistic adj. journalistically adv.
N news, information, piece of news, budget of news, budget of information, intelligence, tidings, word, advice, aviso, message, dispatch, despatch, telegram, cable, marconigram, wire, communication, errand, embassy, report, rumor, hearsay, on dit, flying rumor, news stirring, cry, buzz, bruit, fame, talk, oui dire, scandal, eavesdropping, town tattle, table talk, tittle tattle, canard, topic of the day, idea afloat, bulletin, fresh news, stirring news, glad tidings, flash, news just in, on-the-spot coverage, live coverage, old story, old news, stale news, stale story, chestnut, narrator, newsmonger, scandalmonger, talebearer, telltale, gossip, tattler, journalism, media, news media, the press, the information industry, newspaper, magazine, tract, journal, gazette, publication, radio, television, ticker (electronic information transmission), United Press International, UPI, Associated Press, AP, The Dow Jones News Service, DJ, The New York Times News Service, NYT, Reuters, TASS, The Nikkei, newscaster, newsman, newswoman, reporter, journalist, correspondent, foreign correspondent, special correspondent, war correspondent, news team, news department, anchorman, anchorwoman, sportscaster, weatherman, press secretary, public relations department, public relations man, many-tongued, rumored, publicly rumored, currently rumored, currently reported, rife, current, floating, afloat, going about, in circulation, in every one's mouth, all over the town, in progress, live, on the spot, in person, as the story goes, as the story runs, as they say, it is said, by telegraph, by wireless, airy tongues that syllable men's names, what's up?, what's the latest?, what's new?, what's the latest poop?.
N recorder, notary, clerk, registrar, registrary, register, prothonotary, amanuensis, secretary, scribe, babu, remembrancer, bookkeeper, custos rotulorum, Master of the Rolls, annalist, historian, historiographer, chronicler, journalist, biographer, antiquary, memorialist, interviewer.