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| Main Entry: | journalist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who writes about factual events for a living |
| Synonyms: | announcer, columnist, commentator, contributor, correspondent, cub, editor, hack, pencil pusher*, press, publicist, reporter, scribe, writer, broadcaster, media person, newspaper person, newsperson, scrivener, stringer, television commentator |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | author |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | composer of written work |
| Synonyms: | columnist, composer, creator, ghost, journalist, originator, playwright, poet, reporter, scribe, writer, biographer, essayist, ghostwriter, ink slinger, producer, prose writer, scribbler, scripter, word slinger, wordsmith, work-for-hire |
| Main Entry: | correspondent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person communicating in writing |
| Synonyms: | contributor, journalist, pen pal, reporter, writer, epistler, epistolarian, freelancer, gazetteer, letter writer, stringer |
| Main Entry: | informant/informer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who delivers news |
| Synonyms: | accuser, adviser, announcer, betrayer, blabbermouth*, herald, interviewer, journalist, messenger, preacher, propagandist, rat*, reporter, sneak, source, stool pigeon*, tattletale, canary*, crier, deep throat, double-crosser, newscaster/newsperson, notifier, tattler |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | newsman/newswoman |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reporter |
| Synonyms: | anchor, announcer, columnist, correspondent, cub*, editor, foreign correspondent, interviewer, journalist, newscaster, war correspondent, writer, anchor man/woman, anchor person, copy editor, ink slinger, investigative reporter, legman/woman, newshound, newspaperman/woman, newswriter, pressman/ woman, stringer |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | reporter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who informs |
| Synonyms: | anchor, announcer, columnist, correspondent, cub*, editor, interviewer, journalist, newscaster, scribe, writer, anchorperson, ink slinger, legperson, newshound, newsperson, newswriter, press person, scrivener, stringer |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | writer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who composes with language |
| Synonyms: | author, columnist, contributor, correspondent, critic, dramatist, editor, journalist, novelist, poet, reporter, scribe, biographer, essayist, freelancer, ghostwriter, newspaper person, person of letters, screenwriter, scribbler, scripter, stenographer, stringer, wordsmith |
| Antonyms: | reader |
| Main Entry: | informer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reporter |
| Synonyms: | accuser, adviser, announcer, betrayer, blab, blabbermouth, finger, fink, herald, informer, interviewer, journalist, messenger, preacher, propagandist, rat, singer, snake, sneak, songbird, source, squealer, stool pigeon, tattletale, weasel, canary, crier, deep throat, double-crosser, fat mouth, fork tongue, nark, newsman, notifier, ratfink, snitcher, stoolie, tattler, tipster |
| Main Entry: | press |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | people or person working in communications |
| Synonyms: | columnist, correspondent, editor, fourth estate*, interviewer, journalism, journalist, magazine, media, newspaper, paper, periodical, photographer, publicist, reporter, writer, newsperson, publisher |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | scribe |
| Part of Speech: | noun2 |
| Definition: | writer |
| Synonyms: | columnist, correspondent, journalist, reporter, penman |
| Main Entry: | Fourth Estate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the press |
| Synonyms: | journalism, press, press corps, broadcast journalism, electronic journalism, journalists, news media, print journalism, public press, public print |
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