journalist

person who collects, writes, and distributes news and other information
Intangible profession Q1930187
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Summary

journalist is a profession[1]. journalist ranks in the top 5% of profession entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (22,615 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: occupation group according to ISCO-08[3], position[4]
  • Subclass of: media professional[5], author[6], media profession[7], authors, journalists and linguists[8], writer[9]
  • Commons category: Journalists[10]
  • Field of this occupation: journalism[11]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Journalists[12]
  • ISCO-88 occupation class: 2451[13], 3472[14]
  • Described by source: Basque Literature Terms Dictionary[15]
  • Partially coincident with: interviewer[16], questioner[17]
  • Topic has template: Template:Infobox journalist[18]
  • Equivalent class: http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Journalist[19]
  • Different from: operator[20], reporter[21]
  • Properties for this type: P800[22], P1455[23]
  • Female form of label: صحافية[24], صحفيه[25], periodista[26], журналістка[27], kazetennerez[28], novinářka[29], newyddiadurwraig[30], Journalistin[31], δημοσιογράφος[32], ĵurnalistino[33], journaliste[34], sjoernaliste[35], पत्रकार[36], עיתונאית[37]

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Influence

Things named for journalist include Journalist Award of the Psychiatric Society[38], an award[39], in Czech Republic[40].

Why It Matters

journalist has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[41] journalist is known by 59 alternative names across languages and contexts.[42]

Entities named for journalist include Journalist Award of the Psychiatric Society[38], an award[39], in Czech Republic[40].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . International Standard Classification of Occupations. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Q139921796. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Q139921796. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . euskaltzaindia.eus. Retrieved . euskaltzaindia.eus. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [39] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [40] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [41] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [42] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 1d ago · Treisijs · 2026-10-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Maintained by wikiproject → WikiProject Journalism, WikiProject Writing, WikiProject Occupations
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Maintained by wikiproject: WikiProject Journalism"
  2. 6d ago · KrBot bot · 2026-10-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Female form of label → {'lang': 'ar', 'text': 'صحافية'}, {'lang': 'arz', 'text': 'صحفيه'}, {'lang': 'ast', 'text': 'periodista'} +31
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Female form of label: صحفيه, дублирующееся значение / duplicate value"
  3. 11d ago · Ghaly · 2026-10-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Female form of label → {'lang': 'ar', 'text': 'صحافية'}, {'lang': 'arz', 'text': 'صحفيه'}, {'lang': 'ast', 'text': 'periodista'} +31
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Female form of label: صحفيه"
  4. 16d ago · S.Keim · 2026-10-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → profession, occupation group according to ISCO-08, position
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Instance of: occupation"
  5. 18d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-10-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Enciclopedia galega universal id → 206178
    Harper's tag → journalists
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'als', 'an', 'ar', 'arz', 'ast', 'az', 'azb', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bew', 'b
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: journalists, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289946603|journalists (#289946603)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] "
  6. 9w ago · Tiziana Deluca · 2026-08-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Bncf thesaurus id → 1737, 13401
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|2 */ Bncf thesaurus id: 1737"
  7. 19w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0223121-novinarky, h0001623-novinari
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0223121-novinarky, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259547|batch #259547]]"
  8. 20w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-06-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Female form of label → {'lang': 'ar', 'text': 'صحافية'}, {'lang': 'arz', 'text': 'صحفيه'}, {'lang': 'ast', 'text': 'periodista'} +31
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Female form of label: صحفيه, дублирующееся значение / duplicate value"
  9. 21w ago · Ghaly · 2026-05-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Female form of label → {'lang': 'ar', 'text': 'صحافية'}, {'lang': 'arz', 'text': 'صحفيه'}, {'lang': 'ast', 'text': 'periodista'} +31
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Female form of label: صحفيه"
  10. 22w ago · JhealdBatch · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Isco-88 occupation class → 2451, 3472
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/33414|batch #33414]]: fix ISCO-88 statements (1), redo"
  11. 25w ago · MarisDreshmanisBot · 2026-04-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Euronews topic id → journalist
    Aliases → —
    Field of this occupation → journalism
    Described by source → Basque Literature Terms Dictionary
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetreference-add:2| */ Isco-08 occupation class: 2642, [[Wikidata:Bots/MarisDreshmanisBot|GSCO]] Phase 1.0: provenance reference for ISCO-08 occupation class (source: ISCO-08 Q113864458)"
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