Journalist

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈdʒəːnÉ™lɪst/

Origin

From journal + -ist.

Full definition of journalist

Noun

1. (originally) The keeper of a personal journal, who writes in it regularly.
2. One whose occupation or is journalism, originally only writing in the printed press.
3. A reporter, who professionally does living reporting on news and current events.
• 2013-08-10, Lexington, Keeping the mighty honest, British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.

Related terms

• journalese