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sportswriter

noun

Definition of sportswriter

as in journalist

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Recent Examples of sportswriter Fancying himself the next Damon Runyon, Kennedy got a job after college as a sportswriter for the Glens Falls Post-Star, some fifty miles north of Albany. — Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 1 Sep. 2026 The Colorado High School Softball Player Award Corporation is chaired by Denver Post sportswriter Kyle Newman. — Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 30 Aug. 2026 Longtime Philadelphia Daily News sportswriter Dick Jerardi once likened the process to a basketball Ponzi scheme. — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 24 July 2026 In December a sportswriter published a column with an outright accusation of fixing the championship. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for sportswriter

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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

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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

Definition of photojournalist

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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

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

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

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