broadcast journalist - a journalist who broadcasts on radio or television

columnist, editorialist - a journalist who writes editorials

newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newswriter, pressman, correspondent - a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media

photojournalist - a journalist who presents a story primarily through the use of photographs

penman, scribbler, scribe - informal terms for journalists

sob sister - a journalist who specializes in sentimental stories

sports writer, sportswriter - a journalist who writes about sports

author, writer - writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)

Alfred Alistair Cooke, Alistair Cooke, Cooke - United States journalist (born in England in 1908)

Dorothy Dix, Elizabeth Merriwether Gilmer, Gilmer - United States journalist who wrote a syndicated column of advice to the lovelorn (1870-1951)

Greeley, Horace Greeley - United States journalist with political ambitions (1811-1872)

Edgar Albert Guest, Edgar Guest, Guest - United States journalist (born in England) noted for his syndicated homey verse (1881-1959)

Lippmann, Walter Lippmann - United States journalist (1889-1974)

H. L. Mencken, Henry Louis Mencken, Mencken - United States journalist and literary critic (1880-1956)

John Reed, Reed - United States journalist who reported on the October Revolution from Petrograd in 1917; founded the Communist Labor Party in America in 1919; is buried in the Kremlin in Moscow (1887-1920)

Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman, Elizabeth Seaman, Nellie Bly, Seaman - muckraking United States journalist who exposed bad conditions in mental institutions (1867-1922)

Shirer, William Lawrence Shirer - United States broadcast journalist who was in Berlin at the outbreak of World War II (born in 1904)

Henry M. Stanley, John Rowlands, Sir Henry Morton Stanley, Stanley - Welsh journalist and explorer who led an expedition to Africa in search of David Livingstone and found him in Tanzania in 1871; he and Livingstone together tried to find the source of the Nile River (1841-1904)

Joseph Lincoln Steffens, Lincoln Steffens, Steffens - United States journalist who exposes in 1906 started an era of muckraking journalism (1866-1936)

I. F. Stone, Isidor Feinstein Stone, Stone - United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989)

T. H. White, Theodore Harold White, White - United States political journalist (1915-1986)

Alexander Woollcott, Woollcott - United States drama critic and journalist (1887-1943)

writer - a person who is able to write and has written something

Pepys, Samuel Pepys - English diarist whose diary contained detailed descriptions of 17th century disasters in England (1633-1703)