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Definition of journalist
1a : a person engaged in journalism; especially : a writer or editor for a news mediumb : 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
Recent Examples of journalist from the Web
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Lefty journalist Eric Alterman also gets some of the blame, as his 2003 book What Liberal Media? featured a long diatribe against that evil pseudoscientist Charles Murray, which naturally piqued my interest.
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But this isn't Trump’s first attack on journalists.
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So heads turn and necks crane to take in the strange sight as Minh Phan greets our group of journalists and photographers filing out of the arrivals terminal.
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USA TODAY Sports From time to time, members of The Enquirer staff will write personal essays to give you a sense of the journalists who bring you the news.
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Lowell contributed to the fact obsession that journalists have today.
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Hardly any acronym strikes more horror in American hearts than ISIS, the extremist group that boasts of bombing teens at concerts, driving trucks into holiday crowds, and beheading journalists.
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The company has already lost Kalanick's right-hand man, Senior Vice President of Business Emil Michael, following a number of gaffes including his suggestion that the company target a journalist who had been investigating the company.
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And Simpson, during a sandwich lunch with Paul Wood in the BBC’s Washington radio studio, reached into his briefcase and handed over to the British journalist a redacted version of Steele’s initial report.
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First Known Use of journalist
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JOURNALIST Defined for Kids
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playDefinition of journalist for Students
: an editor or reporter of the news
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