Journalist

A journalist is an individual who prepares and disseminates information relating to factual events. This involves researching information, extrapolating relevant facts and piecing them together in an objective and accessible forum or media so that they may be read, heard, interpreted or analyzed by others. The field of study for a journalist is called journalism. One of the more common names for a journalist is a reporter. Journalists who relay their information over television or radio is called a newscaster. While most journalists strive to keep their work free of personal bias, many still like to self-editorialize their work, inserting a slant of bias, praise or objection regardin the subject of the report.

In fiction

 * In the Star Wars "Expanded Universe", the character of Voren Na'al was the point-of-view narrator of the West End Games roleplaying supplement and resource book Star Wars Galaxy Guide 1: A New Hope. His function was to create an unbiased history relating to the heroes of the Alliance to Restore the Republic and the actions that led them to destroy the super battle station, the Death Star.
 * On the USA Network television series The 4400, a radical tabloid journalist named Barbara Yates proved to be quite a controversial figure, revealing information that endangered the lives of the 4,400 returnees that had come to the present from the past, thus incurring the attention of the National Threat Assessment Command.


 * In the 2009 remake of the TV series V, one of the main characters was a television journalist named Chad Decker. In the hopes of furthering his own career, he used his charisma, guile and resources to become the official mouthpiece for the alien Visitors. As such, Chad's news broadcasts had a strong pro-Visitor sentiment to them. Another journalist who worked alongside Chad Decker was a young woman named Haley Stark.