noun
1. : a journalist who specializes in writing or editing sob stories or other material of a sentimental type
the sob sisters, male and female, have filled the magazines and newspapers with sentimental homilies — A.Q.Maisel
nothing of their marriage would be too intimate for the sob sisters to search out and serve to the public in syrupy prose — Vera Caspary
for fear some … sob sister would track him down for one of those rags-to-riches human interest yarns — Budd Schulberg
2. : a sentimental and often impractical person usually engaged in good works
the impression that psychiatrists are sob sisters who are actuated alone by sympathy for the offender — Medico-Legal Journal
describes the pacifists as paid agitators, sentimental sob sisters — New Republic