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JOURNALIST

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who keeps a diary or journal

Synonyms:

diarist; diary keeper; journalist

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("journalist" is a kind of...):

writer (a person who is able to write and has written something)

Instance hyponyms:

Pepys; Samuel Pepys (English diarist whose diary contained detailed descriptions of 17th century disasters in England (1633-1703))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A writer for newspapers and magazines

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("journalist" is a kind of...):

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "journalist"):

broadcast journalist (a journalist who broadcasts on radio or television)

columnist; editorialist (a journalist who writes editorials)

correspondent; newspaperman; newspaperwoman; newswriter; pressman (a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media)

gazetteer (a journalist who writes for a gazette)

photojournalist (a journalist who presents a story primarily through the use of photographs)

penman; scribbler; scribe (informal terms for journalists)

sob sister (a journalist who specializes in sentimental stories)

sports writer; sportswriter (a journalist who writes about sports)

Instance hyponyms:

Alexander Woollcott; Woollcott (United States drama critic and journalist (1887-1943))

T. H. White; Theodore Harold White; White (United States political journalist (1915-1986))

I. F. Stone; Isidor Feinstein Stone; Stone (United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989))

Joseph Lincoln Steffens; Lincoln Steffens; Steffens (United States journalist whose exposes in 1906 started an era of muckraking journalism (1866-1936))

Henry M. Stanley; John Rowlands; Sir Henry Morton Stanley; Stanley (Welsh journalist and explorer who led an expedition to Africa in search of David Livingstone and found him in Tanzania in 1871; he and Livingstone together tried to find the source of the Nile River (1841-1904))

Shirer; William Lawrence Shirer (United States broadcast journalist who was in Berlin at the outbreak of World War II (1904-1993))

Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman; Elizabeth Seaman; Nellie Bly; Seaman (muckraking United States journalist who exposed bad conditions in mental institutions (1867-1922))

John Reed; Reed (United States journalist who reported on the October Revolution from Petrograd in 1917; founded the Communist Labor Party in America in 1919; is buried in the Kremlin in Moscow (1887-1920))

H. L. Mencken; Henry Louis Mencken; Mencken (United States journalist and literary critic (1880-1956))

Lippmann; Walter Lippmann (United States journalist (1889-1974))

Edgar Albert Guest; Edgar Guest; Guest (United States journalist (born in England) noted for his syndicated homey verse (1881-1959))

Greeley; Horace Greeley (United States journalist with political ambitions (1811-1872))

Dorothy Dix; Elizabeth Merriwether Gilmer; Gilmer (United States journalist who wrote a syndicated column of advice to the lovelorn (1870-1951))

Alfred Alistair Cooke; Alistair Cooke; Cooke (United States journalist (born in England in 1908))

Derivation:

journalism (the profession of reporting or photographing or editing news stories for one of the media)

journalism (newspapers and magazines collectively)

Credits

 Context examples: 

"It proves," he roared, with a sudden blast of fury, "that you are the damnedest imposter in London—a vile, crawling journalist, who has no more science than he has decency in his composition!"

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Well, I was the only journalist in the stand, and my journal the only one that had no account of it, for I was too shaken to write it.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You will kindly show the envelope of this letter to my man, Austin, when you call, as he has to take every precaution to shield me from the intrusive rascals who call themselves 'journalists.'

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

What with the physical shocks incidental to my first interview with Professor Challenger and the mental ones which accompanied the second, I was a somewhat demoralized journalist by the time I found myself in Enmore Park once more.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)