journalist

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   someone who keeps a diary or journal

   My friends are active journalists.

2. 2
   noun

   a writer for newspapers and magazines

   I went to school to become a journalist and ended up writing for a blog.

3. 3
   noun

   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!”

4. 4
   noun

   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.

5. 5
   noun

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

Etymology

From journal + -ist.