What's the difference between journalist and obituary?

Journalist


Definition:

  • (n.) One who keeps a journal or diary.
  • (n.) The conductor of a public journal, or one whose business it to write for a public journal; an editorial or other professional writer for a periodical.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Eighty people, including the outspoken journalist Pravit Rojanaphruk from the Nation newspaper and the former education minister Chaturon Chaisaeng, who was publicly arrested on Tuesday, remain in detention.
  • (2) The arrest of the Washington Post’s Tehran correspondent Jason Rezaian and his journalist wife, Yeganeh Salehi, as well as a photographer and her partner, is a brutal reminder of the distance between President Hassan Rouhani’s reforming promises and his willingness to act.
  • (3) Journalists should never be a propaganda arm of any government – not in peace and never in war.
  • (4) Anna Mazzola, a civil liberties lawyer who advises the National Union of Journalists and whom I consulted, told me that in general if police can view anyone's images, they can only do so in "very limited circumstances".
  • (5) Local and international media and watchdog organisations such as the World Association of Newspapers , Committee to Protect Journalists and Reporters Without Borders have issued statements strongly condemning the prison sentence.
  • (6) Clare Gills, an American journalist and friend of Foley, wrote in 2013: “He is always striving to get to the next place, to get closer to what is really happening, and to understand what moves the people he’s speaking with.
  • (7) As a university student in the early 1980s and a political journalist for most of the 1990s and beyond, I was aware of the issues surrounding Britain's continental occupation.
  • (8) While the papers in this country and the New Yorker were crowing about how Beard had, through her own gutsy initiative, tamed her trolls, another woman – Anita Sarkeesian, a Canadian-American journalist – was being trolled.
  • (9) It was my first day as a journalist, at the Evening Standard's Londoner's Diary, situated on the floor below.
  • (10) I said ‘ periodista, no dispare ’ – it means ‘journalist, don’t shoot’ – ‘ por favor ’.
  • (11) The Morgan family said the terms of reference for the inquiry panel included: • Police involvement in the murder • The role played by police corruption in protecting those responsible for the murder from being brought to justice and the failure to confront that corruption • The incidence of connections between private investigators, police officers and journalists at the News of the World and other parts of the media and corruption involved in the linkages between them.
  • (12) This time, as a journalist covering the event, I was arrested on the high seas, briefly imprisoned and interrogated on Mururoa itself while the tests continued.
  • (13) 'The right-wing bloc will now be able to unify around one leader,' said Robert Misik, a senior Austrian journalist and commentator.
  • (14) But despite gendarmes keeping watch at entrances to the village, one local police officer said there were five times more journalists than security forces.
  • (15) Quizzed by one journalist, Gabrielli joked that "the first 12 hours are the most dangerous".
  • (16) He told journalists he was concerned about the risk that government departments were not acting coherently because of a lack of energy and leadership.
  • (17) Some journalists are uneasy at this notion of keeping an audit trail of thinking, authority and pre-publication decision-making?
  • (18) Asked about white predominance in the sport, South African rugby journalist Paul Dobson replied: "If you suggest that again I'll get annoyed and put the phone down.
  • (19) Thokozile Masipa, a 68-year-old former journalist who was only the second black woman to be appointed to the high court, was praised for her calm authority despite her controversial original verdict.
  • (20) The footballer, who plays for club side Gabala and the national team , had waved a Turkish flag during a Europa League match in Cyprus, and appeared to make an obscene gesture at a Greek journalist who asked why he had done so.

Obituary


Definition:

  • (n.) That which pertains to, or is called forth by, the obit or death of a person; esp., an account of a deceased person; a notice of the death of a person, accompanied by a biographical sketch.
  • (n.) A list of the dead, or a register of anniversary days when service is performed for the dead.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was very sweet, really nice, but it was like an obituary.
  • (2) Lech Kaczynski obituary Read more Many followers of Jarosław Kaczyński think the plane was downed by an intended blast and blame Russia and Poland’s prime minister at the time, Donald Tusk, who is now the president of the European Union.
  • (3) The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Saturday November 17 2007 The obituary below said that some of the uranium used in the Little Boy atom bomb was snatched from Soviet-occupied Germany in 1945 by an Anglo-American special unit.
  • (4) In his book School Worship: An Obituary (1975), he argued against the practice of compulsory worship in inclusive schools.
  • (5) To my generation, death was as remote as the obituary pages of the newspaper.
  • (6) Twitter meanwhile is preparing career obituaries for Onyewu.
  • (7) Last year's annual report by the UN Conference on Trade and Development should have been an obituary for the neoliberal model developed by Hayek and Friedman and their disciples.
  • (8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jo Cox: ‘We’ve lost a great star’ – video obituary “Jo Cox was the most vivacious, personable, dynamic and committed friend you could ever have,” he said.
  • (9) Even after the Daily Mail's Jack Tinker (obituary, October 29 1996) contrived for Shulman's career as a theatre critic to be brought to an end in 1991, he continued to write a column for the Evening Standard on art affairs - until he was 83.
  • (10) Your obituary of Michael Meacher (22 October) underplays his significant contribution to the promotion of genuinely green policies.
  • (11) · Henry Bernard Levin, journalist, born August 19, 1928; died August 7, 2004 Quentin Crewe died in 1998, and the above obituary has been revised.
  • (12) He served fleetingly as a Confederate soldier before deserting ("his career as a soldier was brief and inglorious," said the New York Times obituary; in the autobiography Twain includes a sympathetic account of deserting soldiers being shot, without revealing the reason for his sense of identification).
  • (13) I was first of the "extraordinary talent" Anthony Sampson (obituary, December 21) recruited for Drum magazine.
  • (14) Updated at 10.47pm GMT 10.24pm GMT The Guardian's David Beresford, who was appointed Johannesburg correspondent in 1984, has filed an obituary of Nelson Mandela.
  • (15) Steve Howard, CEO of The Climate Group and chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Climate Change "It's probably a bit too early to be writing the obituary of COP 16 just yet.
  • (16) Christine Cole Northampton • I think Philip Bowring almost completely misses the point in his obituary of Lee Kuan Yew.
  • (17) • Frankie Knuckles obituary • Frankie Knuckles - house pioneer and DJ - dies aged 59
  • (18) The following March, Milosevic was arrested on the orders of the liberal Serbian prime minister Zoran Djindjic, later to be assassinated ( obituary, March 13 2003 ).
  • (19) After his death the obituaries proclaimed Bellows one of the greatest of all American painters – a man more famous at the time than his friend and contemporary Edward Hopper.
  • (20) It was not until both Rothermere (obituary, September 3 1998) and his editor David English (obituary, June 11 1998) died within a short space of time that Dempster became inevitably less secure under the younger Lord Rothermere and Mail editor Paul Dacre.