JOURNALIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does journalist mean? 

• JOURNALIST (noun)
  The noun JOURNALIST has 2 senses:

1. a writer for newspapers and magazines

2. someone who keeps a diary or journal

  Familiarity information: JOURNALIST used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JOURNALIST (noun)

Sense 1

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who keeps a diary or journal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

diarist; diary keeper; journalist

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))

 Context examples 

If you are a journalist, you may be writing about world economic forecasts or the markets.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I am a journalist on the Gazette.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If I had come in here as a journalist, I should have interviewed myself and had two columns in every evening paper.

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

Titanic: The New Evidence focuses upon research by Irish journalist Senan Molony, who spent 30 years investigating the accident.

(UK documentary claims fire weakened RMS Titanic, Wikinews)

I shall try to do what I see lady journalists do: interviewing and writing descriptions and trying to remember conversations.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Back it came, with the editor's regrets, and Martin sent it to San Francisco again, this time to The Hornet, a pretentious monthly that had been fanned into a constellation of the first magnitude by the brilliant journalist who founded it.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

If you are a journalist, you could be reporting on money markets.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Heavy-game shots liked to be in a position to cap the tales of their rivals, and journalists were not averse from sensational coups, even when imagination had to aid fact in the process.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The disconsolate journalist had seated himself at a writing-table.

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

Your new contacts and friends may include ambassadors, diplomats, others who work in the foreign service or government, university professors, journalists and producers, bureau chiefs from publishing and TV networks, and business people who deal with ideas, communication, and negotiation.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)