How to Use journalistic in a Sentence

journalistic

adjective
  • The journalistic duo that helped bring down Richard Nixon agreed to see him the next day.
    — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Her death was a shock to the world and weighed deeply on the journalistic community.
    — Time, 22 Dec. 2022
  • What’s the point of this odd trip down a journalistic memory lane?
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 24 Nov. 2022
  • The Suns of the '90s were a journalistic feast upon which hacks like me gorged almost daily.
    — azcentral, 16 June 2018
  • Bly went on to publish better journalistic work than Around the World in 72 Days.
    — National Geographic, 5 Apr. 2019
  • But why make these points in a novel and not, say, a tract, journalistic report, or polemic?
    — Nathaniel Rich, The Atlantic, 11 May 2018
  • Peter hopes for Melanie’s love and for a journalistic scoop.
    — Pamela Miller, Star Tribune, 16 Oct. 2020
  • But there is no mistaking the point at which the women hit a journalistic brick wall.
    — Charlotte Gray, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Thanks also to their journalistic sources, the couple started to get some leads that the girl was found in Rajasthan.
    — Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN, 17 June 2019
  • Life at home was something of a journalistic boot camp.
    — New York Times, 6 Nov. 2020
  • A lot of top journalistic talent flocked to the medium for that reason.
    — Ariel Shapiro, The Verge, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Mainstream media with high journalistic standards tends to lean a bit to the left.
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 6 Aug. 2018
  • What are the journalistic standards? Where are the victims?
    — Allie Gross, Detroit Free Press, 12 Dec. 2017
  • The contention is that a show need not be journalistic to be newsworthy.
    — Callum Borchers, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2017
  • That was a journalistic question with some mystery to it.
    — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 13 July 2022
  • That is the journalistic aspect of recipe writing: Why this?
    — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2021
  • The show has a tall task to match the book, which is a journalistic masterpiece from one of the best non-fiction writers alive, Patrick Radden Keefe.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2024
  • But few have ever called the outlet a symbol of journalistic ethics.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2022
  • By the end of her career, Ms. Walters saw herself as a guardian of old-school journalistic values.
    — Alessandra Stanley, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2022
  • The friend side, the service side and the journalistic side might take up different proportions.
    — Hannah Edgar, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2022
  • But both the website and TV network should be held to journalistic standards.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 15 June 2020
  • Two years later, Cari made her journalistic debut for the network in a segment on E:60 and the rest—as the old adage goes—was history.
    — Okla Jones, Essence, 16 Apr. 2024
  • What else but a funky little rock 'n' roll bar would let a journalistic misfit like me take center stage?
    — Ben Joravsky, Chicago Reader, 4 Oct. 2017
  • When a journalistic entity such as CNN sinks to such lows this country doesn't have much of a future.
    — Linda Gandee/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 5 Feb. 2018
  • While the rest of the press has sought to move on from the journalistic fiasco, the British broadcaster and Gray Lady have charted a different course.
    — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The reporters onstage were in desperate need of a course in journalistic ethics.
    — Sarah Bahr, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2024
  • In my journalistic opinion, this boy has no soul and will live an unhappy life.
    — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Sadie’s tears went viral as a symbol of journalistic bias.
    — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
  • But publishing the Judge story after the Yankees were swept would have been the journalistic equivalent of robbing a grocery store with two dozen cops standing outside.
    — Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 19 June 2025
  • The Sentinel should be proud of its journalistic efforts shedding light on how Hope Florida seemingly served to funnel money to groups campaigning against an adult recreational marijuana ballot measure that failed to pass in the November election.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 June 2025

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