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jour·nal·ist

(jûr′nə-lĭst)

1. One whose occupation is journalism.

2. One who keeps a journal.

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journalist

(ˈdʒɜːnəlɪst)

1. (Professions) a person whose occupation is journalism

2. a person who keeps a journal

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jour•nal•ist

(ˈdʒɜr nl ɪst)

n.

1. a person whose profession is journalism.

2. a person who keeps a journal.

[1685–95]

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Noun	1.	journalist - a writer for newspapers and magazines broadcast journalist - a journalist who broadcasts on radio or television columnist, editorialist - a journalist who writes editorials newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newswriter, pressman, correspondent - 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 author, writer - writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
	2.	journalist - someone who keeps a diary or journal diarist, diary keeper writer - a person who is able to write and has written something

journalist

noun reporter, writer, correspondent, newsman or newswoman, stringer, commentator, broadcaster, hack (derogatory), columnist, contributor, scribe (informal), pressman, journo (slang), newshound (informal), hackette (derogatory), newspaperman or newspaperwoman a freelance journalist with a special interest in the arts

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"Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true" [Arnold Bennett The Title]

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Translations

صَحَفي، صِحافيصَحَفِيٌّ

novinářžurnalista-ka

journalist

Journalist

δημοσιογράφος

periodistaperiodistoreportero

toimittajajournalistilehtimiesreportteri

journaliste

novinarnovinarkadopisnicadopisnik

újságíró

blaîamaîur

giornalista

ジャーナリスト

저널리스트

journalist

dziennikarz dziennikarka

jornalista

журналист корреспондент репортёр

novinár

novinar

journalist

นักหนังสือพิมพ์

gazeteci

phóng viên

新闻记者

journalist

[ˈdʒɜːnəlɪst] N → periodista mf, reportero/a m/f (LAm)

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

journalist

[ˈdʒɜː^rnəlɪst] n → journaliste mf
She's a journalist → Elle est journaliste.
She's a journalist for The Times → Elle est journaliste au Times.

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

journalist

n → Journalist(in) m(f)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

journalist

[ˈdʒɜːnəlɪst] n → giornalista m/f

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

journal

(ˈdʒəːnl) noun

1. a magazine or other regularly published paper (eg of a society). the British Medical Journal.

2. a diary giving an account of each day's activities.

ˈjournalism noun

the business of running, or writing for, newspapers or magazines.

ˈjournalist noun

a writer for a newspaper, magazine etc.

ˌjournaˈlistic adjective

(of style of writing) like that of a journalist, colourful and racy.

journalist

→ صَحَفِيٌّ žurnalista journalist Journalist δημοσιογράφος periodista toimittaja journaliste novinar giornalista ジャーナリスト 저널리스트 journalist journalist dziennikarz jornalista журналист journalist นักหนังสือพิมพ์ gazeteci phóng viên 新闻记者

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The other men were Blank, the Editor aforementioned, a certain journalist, and another--a quiet, shy man with a beard--whom I didn't know, and who, as far as my observation went, never opened his mouth all the evening.

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One morning the house-physician gave him a new case, a man; and, seating himself at the bedside, Philip proceeded to write down particulars on the `letter.' He noticed on looking at this that the patient was described as a journalist: his name was Thorpe Athelny, an unusual one for a hospital patient, and his age was forty-eight.

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A journalist! He gazed once more into her face, at the brown eyes watching him now a little anxiously, the mouth with the humorous twitch at the corner of her lips.

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It was unlike Winsett to manifest such curiosity; but after all, Archer remembered, he was a journalist.

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Your journalist, whether he takes charge of a ship or a fleet, almost invariably "casts" his anchor.

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"I am a journalist, Monsieur, engaged on the 'Epoque,'" said my young friend with a great show of gesture and politeness, "and I have a word or two to say to Monsieur de Marquet."

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A journalist obtained access to his laboratory in the capacity of laboratory-assistant, with the deliberate intention of making sensational exposures; and by the help of a shocking accident

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They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant.

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We give the fact as it occurs in Bannatyne's Journal, only premising that the Journalist held his master's opinions, both with respect to the Earl of Cassilis as an opposer of the king's party, and as being a detester of the practice of granting church revenues to titulars, instead of their being devoted to pious uses, such as the support of the clergy, expense of schools, and the relief of the national poor.

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"Albert," said the journalist, "these are questions which it is difficult to answer."

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I have been a journalist, you see, and am used to these little maneuvers."

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She was in love with all the new princes and princesses who married into the imperial family; she had been in love with a high dignitary of the Church, a vicar, and a parish priest; she had been in love with a journalist, three Slavophiles, with Komissarov, with a minister, a doctor, an English missionary and Karenin.