journalist
noun
jour·nal·ist
ˈjər-nə-list 
1
a
: a person engaged in journalism
especially
: a writer or editor for a news medium
b
: a writer who aims at a mass audience
2
: a person who keeps a journal
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a journalist who has won awards for two of his feature stories
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Published: Nov 17, 2024 Updated: Nov 18, 2024 Megan Michelson
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Contributing editor Megan Michelson is an award-winning journalist who covers travel and the outdoors for a wide range of publications, including Outside, The New York Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 17 Nov. 2024
In addition to interviewing Manson’s former followers, friends and journalists, the filmmakers have subjects listen and react to these recordings of Manson, who recounts his upbringing, his thoughts about life with his commune and more.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 14 Nov. 2024
Rob Wile Rob Wile is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist covering breaking business stories for NBCNews.com.
—Rob Wile, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
As our editor-in-chief wrote yesterday, that’s what our more than 150 working journalists do.
—ProPublica, 7 Nov. 2024
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Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 17 Nov. 2024
In addition to interviewing Manson’s former followers, friends and journalists, the filmmakers have subjects listen and react to these recordings of Manson, who recounts his upbringing, his thoughts about life with his commune and more.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 14 Nov. 2024
Rob Wile Rob Wile is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist covering breaking business stories for NBCNews.com.
—Rob Wile, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
As our editor-in-chief wrote yesterday, that’s what our more than 150 working journalists do.
—ProPublica, 7 Nov. 2024
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journalist
noun
jour·nal·ist
ˈjərn-ᵊl-əst
: an editor of or writer for a print or digital news medium
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