PHOTOJOURNALIST Synonyms: 28 Similar Words

photojournalist

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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

The essay convinced me that Woodward stopped being a journalist after his great work with Carl Bernstein during the Watergate fiasco.

— Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 29 Oct. 2026
That would be Linda Godfrey, the Janesville, Wisconsin, journalist and cryptozoologist (the study of improbable animals) who died at 71 in 2022.

— Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of journalist

Noun

When the casting was announced, a reporter suggested to Roddenberry that by the 24th century, in a time of faster-than-light starships, surely humankind would have found a cure for male pattern baldness, no?

— Jordan Hoffman, Vanity Fair, 29 Oct. 2026
Reid will serve as the news outlet’s chief White House reporter, the latest addition to MS NOW’s journalistic ranks since its split from Comcast nearly a year ago.

— Ted Johnson, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of reporter

Noun

The following year, a New York sportswriter named Aloysious Palma made the point plainly.

— Zachary Kranc, Sun Sentinel, 27 Oct. 2026
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

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

On this episode of The Sunday Story, NPR's senior political correspondent Tamara Keith discusses the turbulent and unpredictable political landscape of this years' midterm election.

— NPR, NPR, 1 Nov. 2026
By the early 1930s, 29 hot-type machines pressed reports sent by correspondents around the world.

— Aaron Glantz, Christian Science Monitor, 31 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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