NOT a journalist. He had a blog.
Here's a partial list of things disqualifying someone from being considered an actual journalist: Gaslighting, lying, ommitting "inconvenient" facts, pushing political or ideological agendas, creating false narratives, and making up stories out of whole cloth.
In my estimation, ~90 percent of the parasites who call themselves "journalists" are guilty of doing those things regularly. They are anything but journalists.