journalist
noun
jour·nal·ist
ˈjər-nə-list 
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
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Examples of journalist in a Sentence
a journalist who has won awards for two of his feature stories
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Kansas City Star Bot, Kansas City Star, 16 May 2024
Times data journalists turned to Census data to begin to quantify the size and ethnic diversity of the group that has become the fastest-growing demographic in the United States.
—Sandhya Kambhampati, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2024
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Kansas City Star Bot, Kansas City Star, 16 May 2024
Times data journalists turned to Census data to begin to quantify the size and ethnic diversity of the group that has become the fastest-growing demographic in the United States.
—Sandhya Kambhampati, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2024
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journalist
noun
jour·nal·ist
ˈjərn-ᵊl-əst
: an editor of or writer for a print or digital news medium
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