journalist

noun

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.

   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.

   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.

Forms

plural

journalists