A journalist (also called a newspaperman) is a person who practices journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues, and people while striving for non-bias viewpoint.

Reporters are one type of journalist. They create reports as a profession for broadcast or publication in mass media such as newspapers, television, radio, magazines, documentary film, and the Internet. Reporters find sources for their work, their reports can be either spoken or written, and they are often expected to report in the most objective and unbiased way to serve the public good. A columnist is a journalist who writes pieces that appear regularly in newspapers or magazines.

Depending on the context, the term journalist also includes various types of editors and visual journalists, such as photographers, graphic artists, and page designers.

Journalists put the information in their own words, making it creative in their own way so it will catch the reader's or viewer's attention.

Modern journalists

Modern media, including the creation of Internet-based news sources and the possibility that citizen journalism will greatly expand the field, has made it all but impossible to identify which journalists are notable, in the sense that they could be identified in the past. The global justice protests in Seattle (1999) gave rise to the independent media movement, exemplified by the Indymedia network,Fact: date=June 2007 a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage.Fact: date=June 2007

Kid Journalists

main: Scholastic News Kids Press Corps The Scholastic News Kid Press crop. is a group of kids age 8 -14 who report for Scholastic News website and classroom magazines.

Ethics in journalism

main: Journalism ethics Some journalists in the United States adhereFact: date=December 2007 to the standards and norms expressed in the Society of Professional Journalists ethical code. Foremost in the minds of most practicing journalists is the issue of maintaining credibility, "Professional integrity is the cornerstone of a journalist's credibility."

Educating Journalists

Journalists often either receive training directly in the type of news field that they wish to enter, or through various institutions of higher education.

United States

From Columbia University and the University of Florida's College of Journalism and Communications on the East Coast of America, to University of Southern California and Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication on the West Coast, there is a broad range of options for beginning journalists to choose from when entering the field.