journalist

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The keeper of a personal journal, who writes in it regularly.

2. 2

   One whose occupation is journalism, originally only writing in the printed press.

   • “There’s this terrible business to start with. Scotland Yard men in and out of the house like a jack-in-the-box! Never know where they won’t turn up next. Screaming headlines in every paper in the country—damn all journalists, I say!”
3. 3

   A reporter, someone who professionally reports on news and current events.

   • In 2017, Katherine Maher, then the CEO of the WMF, re-imagined the nonprofit’s mission as “top-down social justice activism and advocacy,” as journalist Ashley Rindsberg described it.

The neighborhood

• neighborjournalese
• neighborphotojournalist
• neighborpresstitute