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journo

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)nəʊ

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noun

Meaning 1

A journalist.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Australia, UK, informal

Examples

  • 2004, Pam Austin, Bob Austin, Getting Free Publicity: The Secrets of Successful Press Relations, How To Books, Oxford, page 8, And we hope that all women journos will forgive us if, in these pages, we use the word ‘he’ as shorthand for ‘he/she’ when referring to members of the Fourth Estate.
  • 2007, Sara Voorhees, The Lumière Affair: A Novel of Cannes, Simon & Schuster, New York, page 22, TV journos consider print journos to be snobs who write for other print journos (and are therefore read by a Lilliputian portion of the population). Print journos believe TV journos to be cretins who are worshipped blindly by the lowest common denominator.
  • 2008 August 11, Namrata Joshi, Movie Review: Mission Istaanbul, Outlook, page 80, His nubile wife (Shriya Saran), also a TV journo, calls him names like “mouthpiece of terrorists”.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From journalist + -o (“diminutive suffix”).

Across languages

Translations

2 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • French: journaleux — a journalist
  • French: gratte-papier — a journalist