journalist

[jur-nl-ist] / ˈdʒɜr nl ɪst /

NOUN

person who writes about factual events for a living

Synonyms

STRONGEST

broadcaster columnist commentator correspondent editor press reporter writer

STRONG

announcer contributor cub hack newsperson publicist scribe scrivener stringer

WEAK

media person newspaper person pencil pusher television commentator

Example Sentences

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Yes, chatbots are unusually persuasive, and writers pick up model biases without even knowing it, but the baseline isn’t some platonic ideal of a perfectly objective journalist.

From Slate • Apr. 17, 2026

Spanish journalist Juan Castro described the mood of those at Real as one of disbelief.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

And so had Johnson, a 38-year-old former journalist who turned to social media after being embroiled in plagiarism scandals at BuzzFeed and the Independent Journal Review.

From Salon • Apr. 15, 2026

His friend, theme park journalist Carlye Wisel, noticed these details too.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026

I finally realized that I must do my schoolwork to keep from being ignorant, to get on in life, to become a journalist, because that’s what I want!

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

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