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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

JOURNALIST, n. jur'nalist. The writer of a journal or diary.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a writer for newspapers and magazines
2: someone who keeps a diary or journal [syn: diarist, diary keeper, journalist]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1693 1. a. a person engaged in journalism; especially a writer or editor for a news medium b. a writer who aims at a mass audience 2. a person who keeps a journal

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a person employed to write for or edit a newspaper or journal. Derivatives: journalistic adj. journalistically adv.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Journalist Jour"nal*ist, n. [Cf. F. journaliste.] 1. One who keeps a journal or diary. [Obs.] --Mickle. 2. 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. --Addison.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(journalists) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. A journalist is a person whose job is to collect news and write about it for newspapers, magazines, television, or radio. = reporter N-COUNT

Moby Thesaurus

anchorman, broadcaster, city editor, columnist, commentator, copy chief, copy editor, copyman, copyreader, correspondent, cub reporter, diaskeuast, editor, editorial writer, feature editor, foreign correspondent, gazetteer, hack, interviewer, leader writer, leg man, managing editor, news editor, newscaster, newsman, newsmonger, newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newswriter, own correspondent, paragrapher, paragraphist, pressman, publicist, reader, reporter, reviser, rewrite man, rewriter, scribe, slotman, sob sister, special correspondent, sports editor, stringer, subeditor, war correspondent