PHOTOJOURNALIST Synonyms: 28 Similar Words

photojournalist

noun

Definition of photojournalist

as in journalist

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Recent Examples of photojournalist American freelance photojournalist Heidi Levine is treated after being attacked by Israeli settlers on October 16, 2026. — Reuters, NBC news, 19 Oct. 2026 Hutton is a Zelig-like figure who was acquainted with all sorts of 1950s icons as a teenager, including legendary photojournalist Earl Leaf, who served as an early mentor. — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2026 In Friday’s attack, Levine, a veteran photojournalist, was knocked to the ground, beaten with sticks, kicked repeatedly, and stripped of her cameras and phone by masked settlers. — Gerry Shih, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2026 Jean-Pierre Laffont is a pioneering French-American photojournalist who documented pivotal moments of the 20th century. — Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026 In northern Gaza, photojournalist Osama Al-Ashi is documenting a war while trying to survive it. — Essie Assibu, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026 Posing as a potential buyer several years ago, conservation photojournalist Paul Hilton recalled being led deep into a rural Sumatran community after a tip-off of an orangutan for sale. — Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2026 This year’s honorees included American photojournalist Lynsey Addario, Malawian girls’ rights advocate Vanessa Mwangala and Kyrgyz journalists Bolot Temirov and Makhabat Tazhibek Kyzy. — Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 10 Oct. 2026 But the show more than makes do with the photography that comes to the fore in a long gallery featuring WPA work by Berenice Abbott and the photojournalist Weegee, as well as the younger street photographer Harvey Wang. — J. Hoberman, ARTnews.com, 9 Oct. 2026

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Noun

Kagame has led the country for decades, and his government has long been accused of abuses over its treatment of political opponents, journalists and other critics.

— Nimi Princewill, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2026
If the report is so defective that nobody should rely on it, release it alongside the state’s criticisms and let lawmakers, journalists, insurance experts and Floridians examine both.

— Matthew T. Christ, Sun Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of journalist

Noun

Watt joined play-by-play announcer Jim Nantz and sideline reporter Tracy Wolfson after Tony Romo went on leave following his July 23 arrest in Wisconsin.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026
According to one of the student reporters, SB Nation’s Testudo Times journalist Nolan Rogalski, he and Jude Wilkenfeld believed they were permitted to stand outside the football complex because Maryland is a public university.

— Trey Wallace OutKick, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of reporter

Noun

But he will mostly be remembered for his profanity-laden rant aimed at a sportswriter in the media room after Game 2 of the ALDS — a White Sox win, by the way.

— Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 13 Oct. 2026
Peter O’Malley, the Dodgers’ president at the time, made the sudden and strange choice to replace Campanis with Claire, the team’s public relations boss who had spent the first 11 years of his career as a sportswriter.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of sportswriter

Noun

Once, when his unit came under heavy fire, a soldier running for cover caught a glimpse of Salinger hunched under a table, clacking away like a frenzied newsman on deadline.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Aug. 2026
Candidates like actress Mayim Bialik, newsman Anderson Cooper, and Reading Rainbow star LeVar Burton.

— Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 13 July 2026

Definition of newsman

Noun

This time Jathar was able to align his organization’s advocacy with his expertise and the staffer’s areas of interest.

— Lucas Laursen, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Oct. 2026
But for me the wow factor started weeks out with a leisurely but extremely detailed call with a kindly staffer who took down all of our details.

— Kate Berlant, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of staffer

Noun

Wu plays Katie Buranek, a war correspondent for the fictional Voltstreem News.

— Erin Wisti, Footwear News, 24 Oct. 2026
Illustration by Jeffrey Smith On June 4, 1952, Ernest Hemingway stood at his typewriter at Finca Vigía, his home outside Havana, and wrote to one of his favorite correspondents, Harvey Breit, of the Times Book Review.

— Stephen Bates, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of correspondent

Noun

And Britain itself, after the financial and cultural boom of the ’90s, has in the post-recession era settled into its new role as butler to the world, to borrow a phrase from writer and money-laundering muckraker Oliver Bullough.

— Eliza Goodpasture, ARTnews.com, 5 Oct. 2026
Several anti-Flock websites and muckrakers used open records laws to collect and publish hundreds of police agencies’ audit logs – internal records detailing each time an officer searched Flock for a specific tag.

— Kenny Jacoby, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of muckraker

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