Journalist
['dʒɜːn(ə)lɪst] or ['dʒɝnəlɪst]
Definition
(n.) One who keeps a journal or diary.
(n.) The conductor of a public journal, or one whose business it to write for a public journal; an editorial or other professional writer for a periodical.
Edited by Astor
Examples
- It was unlike Winsett to manifest such curiosity; but after all, Archer remembered, he was a journalist. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The consequences are thus described by the Journalist already quoted. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I am a journalist. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- If I had come in here as a journalist, I should have interviewed myself and had two columns in every evening paper. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Winsett was not a journalist by choice. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- 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. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The disconsolate journalist had seated himself at a writing-table. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- It almost insensibly leads the youth into the resolution of endeavouring to become as good and eminent as the journalist. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- It is the mark of the journalist. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- All the journalists should be shot as well as most of the people in this room and certainly the intriguing German unmentionable of a Richard. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- But like all journalists I wish to write literature. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
Typist: Molly