What's the difference between journalist and publicist?

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.

Publicist


Definition:

  • (n.) A writer on the laws of nature and nations; one who is versed in the science of public right, the principles of government, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The man behind the hamster story was the British publicist Max Clifford, the disgraced PR guru who was convicted in May of eight counts of indecent assaults on four women.
  • (2) On Sunday, Leslee Dart, a publicist for Allen, 78, said: Mr Allen has read the article and found it untrue and disgraceful.
  • (3) These included the actor Sienna Miller, the former Labour culture secretary Tessa Jowell, the football agent Sky Andrew and the publicist Nicola Phillips.
  • (4) He talks quietly, often in short sentences, and when he points to a picture of Boris Johnson in his paper and calls him a "self-publicist", I get the impression that is the worst thing you could say about anyone in Enfield's eyes.
  • (5) Gerard Franklin, the publicist for Duran Duran, said: "Duran Duran values its many loyal fans around the world and feels compelled to correct the media's mischaracterisation of its lawsuit against Worldwide Fan Clubs Inc.
  • (6) As things got a little provocative and exciting, he said, ‘I’m throwing out the show I wrote and writing a new show.’” Chris Rock will remain Oscars host and plans to address white-only race row Read more However, in a statement to the Hollywood Reporter , Rock’s publicist Leslie Sloane flatly contradicted the claims.
  • (7) Recent reports suggested that Depp had left the set of the fifth Pirates movie to be with them but his publicist has since denied this .
  • (8) It’s unclear that anyone was really helped by the Born this Way Foundation other than lawyers, consultants, publicists and travel agents,” he wrote.
  • (9) Aisikaier, hailed as the Prince by his publicist, is Uighur, a predominantly Muslim ethnic group from Xinjiang in China's far north-west.
  • (10) The celebrity publicist has begun a legal action seeking to prove that the Sunday newspaper unlawfully ­intercepted messages on his mobile phone.
  • (11) He was the greatest part-publicist, part entertainer.
  • (12) *** The day Lucía was due to swear Pepe in as president, his publicist Pancho Vernazza had arranged to meet him at 8am to go over the speech.
  • (13) When the book comes out I’ve told the publicist: I don’t want this guy on television, some Jesus freak will blow him up.” In the event, when the New Yorker piece came out some people threw eggs at Foos’s house, but so far that has been it.
  • (14) In January, prominent music publicist Heathcliff Berru stepped down from the firm he founded after Amber Coffman, from the band the Dirty Projectors, accused him of sexual harassment in a series of tweets and a number of other women shared similar stories.
  • (15) The publicist said Taylor's children were at her side at the time of her death.
  • (16) I feel the glare of the publicist behind me, but Reynolds smiles: "To really let go like that 26 times in a row was tough.
  • (17) Grimmie died at the hospital, her publicist Heather Weiss confirmed.
  • (18) He chuckled and found a space in which to conduct the interview, done under the eyes of a circle of fans, a couple of ready-to-pounce photographers and his publicist, who helped out when he couldn't quite express what he was trying to say in his extremely impressive English.
  • (19) The publicist brokered the selling of a story by Sally Anderson, an estate agent who claimed to have had a relationship with the MP.
  • (20) Where a million starlets, waitresses, publicists and barmaids were sprawled around the hot tub.