what does a journalist do?

The term journalist can be applied to writers, photographers, sub editors and editors, news presenters and news readers, researchers, copy writers and copy editors, designers and typographers. Each category has been sub divided for example, the writers on a medium size provincial daily newspaper may commonly have included reporters, staff correspondents, feature writers and leader writers mainly responsible for daily editorial. Many journalists have done little writting such as subeditors in both print and broadcasting have been mainly concerend with presentation, with checking, correcting and putting into the appropraite form the work of reporters. Television reporters have had to know something about film direction and need to be liaise with camera crews, journalists in PR have usually been expeceted to learn about marketting