What does journalist mean?
Word: Journalist
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Journalist means a person who collects news and writes or reports it for newspapers, magazines, television, radio or websites.
Synonyms: correspondent
How do you spell journalist?
Syllables: jour - nal - ist
Tricky part: The first part sounds like jur but is spelt jour. Pupils who spell by sound write jurnalist.
Watch out for: jurnalist, jernalist
Memory tip: Jour is French for day, and a journalist writes about each day's news.
Journalist in a sentence
Example 1: The journalist asked the cricket captain about the final over.
Example 2: My aunt is a journalist who writes about farming for a local paper.
Example 3: Journalists crowded round the scientist after the rocket launch.
Fun Fact
Journalists at the Mumbai Samachar, a Gujarati paper started in 1822, have been reporting news for over 200 years, making it one of the oldest newspapers still printed in Asia.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Makeup
Choose the suffix that completes the word:
journal____
a) ist
b) est
c) ast
d) ust
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a) ist. Journal takes ist to name the person, as art makes artist.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
sotjrualin
a) nationalist
b) journalism
c) journals
d) journalist
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d) journalist. Journalism needs an m, nationalist an n at the start and another a, and journals is too short.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) editer
b) newspapper
c) photografer
d) journalist
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d) journalist. Photographer has ph for its second f sound, editor ends in or, and newspaper has one p in paper.
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word:
journalist
a) reader
b) reporter
c) teacher
d) printer
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b) reporter. A reporter gathers and reports the news, as a journalist does.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. At a cricket match, what would a journalist be doing?
a) selling snacks in the stands
b) rolling the pitch
c) interviewing the players afterwards
d) bowling the first over
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c) interviewing the players afterwards
2. Before writing a story, a careful journalist checks ____.
a) that the facts are true
b) which pen looks nicest
c) how many pages are left
d) the size of the font
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a) that the facts are true
