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Noun

S: (n) Scribe, Augustin Eugene Scribe (French playwright (1791-1861))

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S: (n) scribe, scribbler, penman (informal terms for journalists)

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S: (n) journalist (a writer for newspapers and magazines)

S: (n) broadcast journalist (a journalist who broadcasts on radio or television)
S: (n) columnist, editorialist (a journalist who writes editorials)
S: (n) correspondent, newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newswriter, pressman (a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media)
S: (n) gazetteer (a journalist who writes for a gazette)
S: (n) photojournalist (a journalist who presents a story primarily through the use of photographs)
S: (n) scribe, scribbler, penman (informal terms for journalists)
S: (n) sob sister (a journalist who specializes in sentimental stories)
S: (n) sports writer, sportswriter (a journalist who writes about sports)
S: (n) Cooke, Alistair Cooke, Alfred Alistair Cooke (United States journalist (born in England in 1908))
S: (n) Gilmer, Elizabeth Merriwether Gilmer, Dorothy Dix (United States journalist who wrote a syndicated column of advice to the lovelorn (1870-1951))
S: (n) Greeley, Horace Greeley (United States journalist with political ambitions (1811-1872))
S: (n) Guest, Edgar Guest, Edgar Albert Guest (United States journalist (born in England) noted for his syndicated homey verse (1881-1959))
S: (n) Lippmann, Walter Lippmann (United States journalist (1889-1974))
S: (n) Mencken, H. L. Mencken, Henry Louis Mencken (United States journalist and literary critic (1880-1956))
S: (n) Reed, John Reed (United States journalist who reported on the October Revolution from Petrograd in 1917; founded the Communist Labor Party in America in 1919; is buried in the Kremlin in Moscow (1887-1920))
S: (n) Seaman, Elizabeth Seaman, Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman, Nellie Bly (muckraking United States journalist who exposed bad conditions in mental institutions (1867-1922))
S: (n) Shirer, William Lawrence Shirer (United States broadcast journalist who was in Berlin at the outbreak of World War II (1904-1993))
S: (n) Stanley, Henry M. Stanley, Sir Henry Morton Stanley, John Rowlands (Welsh journalist and explorer who led an expedition to Africa in search of David Livingstone and found him in Tanzania in 1871; he and Livingstone together tried to find the source of the Nile River (1841-1904))
S: (n) Steffens, Lincoln Steffens, Joseph Lincoln Steffens (United States journalist whose exposes in 1906 started an era of muckraking journalism (1866-1936))
S: (n) Stone, I. F. Stone, Isidor Feinstein Stone (United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989))
S: (n) White, T. H. White, Theodore Harold White (United States political journalist (1915-1986))
S: (n) Woollcott, Alexander Woollcott (United States drama critic and journalist (1887-1943))

derivationally related form

S: (n) copyist, scribe, scrivener (someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts)

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derivationally related form

S: (n) scriber, scribe, scratch awl (a sharp-pointed awl for marking wood or metal to be cut)

Verb

S: (v) scribe (score a line on with a pointed instrument, as in metalworking)