Definition of "journalist" []

• One whose occupation is journalism. (noun)
• One who keeps a journal. (noun)

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• "Mr. Guttenplan insists on treating Izzy Stone as not just a talented ­reporter — only a journalist could write so worshipfully of another ­journalist — but as a heroic figure whose dedication to the truth should shine like a beacon in dark times."
• "Thus he reminds us that the journalist is, in the literal and derivative sense, a _journalist_, while the missionary is an eternalist."
• "That's the term journalist Charles Seife came up with to describe deliberately misleading numbers."