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Journalist vs Pressman - What's the difference?

journalist | pressman |

As nouns the difference between journalist and pressman

is that journalist is the keeper of a personal journal, who writes in it regularly while pressman is someone who operates a printing press.

journalist

English

(wikipedia journalist)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (originally) The keeper of a personal journal, who writes in it regularly.
  • One whose occupation or is journalism, originally only writing in the printed press.
  • A reporter, who professionally does living reporting on news and current events.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
    • , title= Keeping the mighty honest , passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}

    Related terms

    * journalese

    pressman

    English

    Noun

    (pressmen)
  • someone who operates a printing press
  • a journalist or newspaper reporter
  • one who pressgangs people into naval service
  • one who presses clothes
    • a tailor's pressman
    English nouns with irregular plurals