journalist UK /ˈd͡ʒɜːnəlɪst/US /ˈd͡ʒɝnəlɪst/noun 3forms 1phrases 1 noun3 •someone who is paid to gather news and tell the public about itIn 2017, Katherine Maher, then the CEO of the WMF, re-imagined the nonprofit’s mission as “top-down social justice activism and advocacy,” as journalist Ashley Rindsberg described it. — 2025 •One whose occupation is journalism, originally only writing in the printed press. •The keeper of a personal journal, who writes in it regularly. formsjournalists Phrases with journalist yellow journalistA journalist who writes material which is sensationalistic and of questionable accuracy and taste.
