Journalist

A Journalist is an analyst who performs journalism tasks.

• Context:
  • They can (typically) create News Articles.
  • They can (often) be employed by News Publishers.
  • They can range from being a Professional Journalist to being an Unaccredited Journalist.
• Example(s):
  • Benjamin Franklin.
  • Ida B. Wells.
  • Gloria Steinem.
  • Fritz Gerlich.
  • John Peter Zenger
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Scientist.
  • a Media Critic.
  • a Blogger.
• See: Journalism, News, Information.

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References

2016

• Thomas Frank. (2016). “The media’s extermination of Bernie Sanders, and real reform." Harpers Magazine.
  • QUOTE: Who are these people …

    … The professionalization of journalism is a well-known historical narrative. James Fallows, in Breaking the News (1996), describes how journalism went from being “a high working-class activity” to an occupation for “college boys” in the mid-1960s. The Washington Post’s role in this story, as a compulsive employer of Ivy League graduates, is also well known. Indeed, the concentration of obnoxious Ivy Leaguers at the Post was once so great, Fallows writes, that editor Leonard Downie (who went to Ohio State) was known among his colleagues as “Land-Grant Len.” At present, five of the eight members of the Post’s editorial board are graduates of Ivy League universities. …
    … Choosing Clinton over Sanders was, I think, a no-brainer for this group. They understand modern economics, they know not to fear Wall Street or free trade. And they addressed themselves to the Sanders campaign by doing what professionals always do: defining the boundaries of legitimacy, by which I mean, defining Sanders out.

2015

• (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/journalist Retrieved:2015-7-8.
  • A journalist is a person who collects, writes, or distributes news or other current information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism. A journalist can work with general issues or specialize in certain issues, however, most journalists tend to specialize, and by cooperating with other journalists produce journals that span many topics. For example, a sports journalist covers news within the world of sports, but this journalist may be a part of a newspaper that covers many different topics.

2015

• Bertrand Mayer. http://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/189168-the-robots-are-taking-over-perhaps-not-quite-yet/fulltext
  • QUOTE: The journalist's tendency to exaggerate is not limited to tabloids. Highbrow publications such as the New York Review generally have higher standards; but there is something about writing on science and technology that leads authors and editors to throw away all caution.

1997

• (Fallows, 1997) ⇒ James Fallows. (1997). “Breaking The News: How the media undermine American democracy."

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