Definition of Journalist

Journalist

One who keeps a journal or diary.

The conductor of a public journal, or one whose business it to write for a public journal; an editorial or other professional writer for a periodical.

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Journalist Quotations

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
George Bernard Shaw

I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.
Richard Branson

And I think because of the passion of every English player and every English supporter, and every English journalist for the game, most of the game is played with passion, love for football and instinct, but in football you also have to think.
Jose Mourinho

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
H. G. Wells

I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.
Jessica Savitch

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.
W. H. Auden

The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you're an artist or a journalist is to be engaged in the process at some level.
Billy Bragg

A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
Otto von Bismarck

I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.
Norman Mailer

Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.
Carol Burnett

Assange is not a 'journalist' any more than the 'editor' of al-Qaeda's new English-language magazine 'Inspire' is a 'journalist.' He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands.
Sarah Palin

I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.
Jim Harrison

Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.
Marguerite Duras

Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
Jean de La Fontaine

It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.
Patricia Heaton

Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.
Rahm Emanuel

As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it.
Linda Vester

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
Walter Lippmann

It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
Kate Adie

Before acting, I wanted to become a journalist. I also toyed with the idea of being a chef - but that's only when people asked me what I wanted to be. In fact, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I didn't ever believe that I was good enough to be come one.
Ian Mckellen

Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
Karl Kraus

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.
Karl Kraus

You know I take music seriously, right? So I expect journalists to take being a journalist seriously.
Glenn Danzig

I think the key to being a journalist is getting your subject to feel comfortable enough to talk about stuff they want to talk about and the stuff they like and don't like, and still feel comfortable about it.
Glenn Danzig

But unfortunately, I have to say, one out of every 100 interviews I do, I get a real journalist.
Glenn Danzig

To a journalist, good news is often not news at all.
Phil Donahue

I'm a journalist and that's what I do.
Jim Lehrer

If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably, immediately speaking to the police, I don't think there's any doubt but that people won't talk. And, therefore, the public won't learn.
Floyd Abrams

CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn't work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he's a journalist and not a police agent.
Floyd Abrams

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Journalist Translations

journalist in Afrikaans is joernalis
journalist in Danish is journalist
journalist in Dutch is journaliste
journalist in French is journaliste
journalist in German is Journalistin
journalist in Italian is giornalista
journalist in Norwegian is journalist
journalist in Portuguese is jornalista
journalist in Spanish is periodista
journalist in Swedish is journalist

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