journalist:
(plural: ‘journalists‘; for the right pronunciation, please click here)
a journalist at work
a person whose profession/job is journalism;
a person who keeps journals,
R.I.P. Mattiebelle Woods, believed to be the oldest working female journalist
A journalist does not merely report things that happen as the newspaper or TV reporters do, but writes about things and persons gathering facts and using his/her own analyses, opinions or understanding of those things or persons; for instance, “When there was a terrorist act at a certain place, the reporters report the incident as it actually happened. The journalist, basing on the facts in the reports, doing a thorough investigation, comparing such incidents that had happened before, drawing parallels, writes an essay with reasons for such an act with conclusion of who was directly responsible and who was indirectly responsible and what could have been done to avoid such incidents, etc.”
Christiane Amanpour is one of the few female journalists who started their career at the lowest level but reached the highest level of journalism within a short period of time.
Investigative journalists are like detectives who follow an issue relentlessly and gather information secretly, often at the risk of losing their lives.
Note (2): You may have noticed that three different names — correspondent, journalist and TV reporter — are used to refer to one person with the same profession related to ‘media’ in the second video of the related videos you see on the right of this text. This is the general tendency people show these days to refer to a ‘media person’!
