journalist

The keeper of a personal journal, who writes in it regularly.

One whose occupation is journalism, originally only writing in the printed press.

• “There’s this terrible business to start with. Scotland Yard men in and out of the house like a jack-in-the-box! Never know where they won’t turn up next. Screaming headlines in every paper in the country—damn all journalists, I say!”

A reporter, someone who professionally reports on news and current events.

• In 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.