journalist Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a writer for newspapers and magazines
  2. noun someone who keeps a diary or journal
    diarist; diary keeper.

WordNet

Jour"nal*ist noun
Etymology
Cf. F. journaliste.
Definitions
  1. One who keeps a journal or diary. Obs. Mickle.
  2. The conductor of a public journal, or one whose business it to write for a public journal; an editorial or other professional writer for a periodical. Addison.

Webster 1913