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