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noun ADJ. brilliant, good | experienced | leading, well-known | professional | freelance | investigative | foreign | magazine, newspaper, print, tabloid | broadcast, radio, television | business, environmental, fashion, financial, literary, political, sports VERB + JOURNALIST speak to, talk to, tell She was warned against speaking to journalists about the affair. JOURNALIST + VERB investigate sth | write (sth) a journalist writing for a current affairs publication | report (on) sth PREP. ~ on/with an investigative journalist with a French newspaperJOB
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journalist
someone who writes for a newspaper or magazine:
• She worked as a journalist on the New York Times. • I've always wanted to be a journalist.
reporter
someone whose job is to find out about news stories and ask questions for a newspaper, television or radio company etc:
• A crowd of reporters were waiting outside the house all night. • He told reporters that he had no intention of resigning.
correspondent
someone who writes news articles or does reports about a particular subject, especially a serious one, for a newspaper or news organization:
• our economics correspondent • a war correspondent • He was the BBC's correspondent in Moscow.
columnist
someone who writes articles, especially about a particular subject, that appear regularly in a newspaper or magazine:
• an influential financial columnist • a gossip columnist
hack
informal a disapproving word for a journalist, especially one whose work is of low quality:
• The editor sent one of his hacks to interview the murderer’s girlfriend.
newsman/woman
( also newspaperman/woman ) a general word for someone who works for a newspaper, especially a reporter or editor:
• an experienced newspaperman
the press
newspapers and journalists in general:
• The press always like a good story about the royal family. • the right-wing press
Fleet Street
the British press. This phrase comes from the street in London, where many newspapers used to have their offices:
• Relations between the government and Fleet Street aren't as cosy as they once were.
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