What is a Journalite? What is a journalist? A journalist is a person who practices the occupation or profession of journalism. What is journalism? Journalism as a profession is the occupation of reporting, writing, editing, photographing, or broadcasting news or of conducting any news organization as a business. Journalism is also any course study preparing students for careers in reporting, writing, and editing for newspapers and magazines. Journalism is writing that reflects superficial thought and research, a popular slant, and hurried composition, conceived of as exemplifying topical newspaper or popular magazine writing as distinguished from scholarly writing: He calls himself...