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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The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.
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Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 29 June 2025
With the At a Glance Summaries tool, journalists select a prompt template, and the in-house language model writes three to five bullet points.
—Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
In a show of business as usual, Vucic handed out presidential awards in the capital, including to artists and journalists.
—Jovana Gec, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2025
Those are all questions that journalists at NPR, and elsewhere, have relied on anonymous sources — people who do not want their names used in a story — to try to answer.
—Meghan Ashford-Grooms, NPR, 29 June 2025
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Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 29 June 2025
With the At a Glance Summaries tool, journalists select a prompt template, and the in-house language model writes three to five bullet points.
—Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
In a show of business as usual, Vucic handed out presidential awards in the capital, including to artists and journalists.
—Jovana Gec, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2025
Those are all questions that journalists at NPR, and elsewhere, have relied on anonymous sources — people who do not want their names used in a story — to try to answer.
—Meghan Ashford-Grooms, NPR, 29 June 2025
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“Journalist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/journalist. Accessed 8 Jul. 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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