journalist
Noun
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A writer for newspapers and magazines (synset 110244248)
is a type of: author, writer - writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)subtypes:
- 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
specific instances:- alfred alistair cooke, alistair cooke, cooke - United States journalist (born in England in 1908)
- dorothy dix, elizabeth merriwether gilmer, gilmer - United States journalist who wrote a syndicated column of advice to the lovelorn (1870-1951)
- greeley, horace greeley - United States journalist with political ambitions (1811-1872)
- edgar albert guest, edgar guest, guest - United States journalist (born in England) noted for his syndicated homey verse (1881-1959)
- lippmann, walter lippmann - United States journalist (1889-1974)
- h. l. mencken, henry louis mencken, mencken - United States journalist and literary critic (1880-1956)
- 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)
- elizabeth cochrane seaman, elizabeth seaman, nellie bly, seaman - muckraking United States journalist who exposed bad conditions in mental institutions (1867-1922)
- shirer, william lawrence shirer - United States broadcast journalist who was in Berlin at the outbreak of World War II (1904-1993)
- 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)
- joseph lincoln steffens, lincoln steffens, steffens - United States journalist whose exposes in 1906 started an era of muckraking journalism (1866-1936)
- i. f. stone, isidor feinstein stone, stone - United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989)
- t. h. white, theodore harold white, white - United States political journalist (1915-1986)
- alexander woollcott, woollcott - United States drama critic and journalist (1887-1943)
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Someone who keeps a diary or journal (synset 110031140)
is a type of: writer - a person who is able to write and has written somethingspecific instances: pepys, samuel pepys - English diarist whose diary contained detailed descriptions of 17th century disasters in England (1633-1703)same as: diarist, diary keeper
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