-_ə̇st noun
( -s )
Etymology: journal (I) + -ist
1.
a. : one engaged in journalism ; especially : one employed to write or edit the subject matter of a news medium
b. : a writer who aims or is felt to aim chiefly at a mass audience or strives for immediate popular appeal in his writings
c. : an enlisted man (as in the United States Navy) who performs public information duties
2. : one who keeps a journal