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語源

From journal +‎ -ist.

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɝnəlɪst/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɜːnəlɪst/

名詞

journalist (plural journalists)

1. (originally) The keeper of a personal journal, who writes in it regularly.
2. One whose occupation is journalism, originally only writing in the printed press.

   Synonym: (archaic or historical) gazetteer

   • 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 126:

     “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!”

3. A reporter, someone who professionally reports on news and current events.
   • 2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist‎, volume 408, number 8848, archived from the original on 12 March 2023:

     British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.

   • 2019 October 29, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “At Least 150 Detainees Have Died in One Xinjiang Internment Camp: Police Officer”, in Mamatjan Juma, transl., Radio Free Asia‎, archived from the original on 2 December 2019:

     A staff member of the Kuchar County Judiciary told RFA that he did not have the authority “to answer political questions of this magnitude,” when asked whether 150 people had died in No. 1 Camp, and whether the number included any government officials or other employees.
     “We have a county-wide directive—firstly, to never provide answers to pretend journalists, and secondly, to never take phone calls of unknown origin,” he said.

   • 2025 September 30, Larry Sanger, “4. Revive the original neutrality policy.”, in larrysanger.org‎, archived from the original on 29 September 2025:

     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.

下位語

• photojournalist
• presstitute

派生語

関連する語

• journalese