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A journalist is a person who creates articles or reports as a profession for broadcast or publication in mass media such as newspapers, television, radio, magazines, documentary film and the Internet.
Origin and scope of the term
In the early 19th century, the term journalist once meant simply someone who wrote for journals, such as Charles Dickens in his early career, but has come to mean a writer for newsapapers and magazines as well. The term journalist is interchangeable with reporter.
Many journalists write for print periodicals, but some also write books or publish on the Internet. Broadcast journalists appear on radio or television.
Regardless of medium, the term journalist now carries a connotation or expectation of professionalism in reporting, with consideration for truth and ethics. This expectation is not always met, as journalists may publicly or privately take sides, but this is not taken lightly when revealed.
19th century journalists
20th century print journalists
- Samuel Hopkins Adams (18711958) - American investigative journalist
- Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)
- Rhett Baker (1950-2003) - Buffalo Housing committee recording of hearing of Daniel Patrick Moynihan 1999 / Buffalo, N.Y.
- Ben Bradlee, editor of the Washington Post at the time of the Watergate scandal
- Winston Churchill (1874-1965) war correspondent in the Boer War, captured by the Boers
- Claud Cockburn (1904-1981) radical Irish journalist
- C.P. Connolly (1863-1935) radical American investigative journalist associated for many years with Collier's Weekly.
- Martha Gellhorn (1908-1998) war correspondent
- Emily Hahn (1905-1997) - wrote extensively on China
- Pauline Kael (1919-2001) - Film critic for The New Yorker
- A.J. Liebling (1904-1963) American journalist closely associated with The New Yorker
- Walter Lippmann (1889-1974)
- Jonathan Meades
- H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) - essayist, critic, and editor of the Baltimore Sun.
- George Orwell (1903-1950) - reported on poverty, misery, and the Spanish Civil War
- Edward Said (1935-2003) - essayist, Palestinan activist
- James (Scotty) Reston - political commentator for the New York Times
- George Seldes (1890-1995) - American journalist, editor and publisher of In Fact.
- I.F. Stone (1907-1989), investigative journalist, publisher of I.F. Stone's Weekly
- Walter Winchell
20th century broadcast journalists
- Edward R. Murrow, CBS News radio correspondent in London Blitz, maker of TV documentaries, noted interviewer
- Walter Cronkite, former United Press correspondent, TV anchor for CBS News in the 50s, 60s
- David Brinkley, television anchor and interview show host on the American networks ABC and NBC
- Dan Rather, succeeded Cronkite as managing editor and primary anchor of the CBS Evening News
- Sorious Samura, CNN TV documentary maker from Sierra Leone
- Fritz Spiegl, popularizer of classical music for the BBC
Internet journalists
- Matt Drudge - Actively involved in revelations of the scandals of the Clinton administration.
Contemporary journalists
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There are numerous examples of journalists turned novelists, both in the past and in the present, amongst them
See also
Referenced By
List of professions
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