How to Use journalistic in a Sentence

journalistic

adjective
  • There was no need to guard journalistic craft.
    — Jerry Brewer, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026
  • The gift of gab would serve him well in his journalistic career.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2025
  • What’s the point of this odd trip down a journalistic memory lane?
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 24 Nov. 2022
  • But why make these points in a novel and not, say, a tract, journalistic report, or polemic?
    — Nathaniel Rich, The Atlantic, 11 May 2018
  • The journalistic duo that helped bring down Richard Nixon agreed to see him the next day.
    — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Were any journalistic lines crossed?
    — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 9 Jan. 2026
  • But there is no mistaking the point at which the women hit a journalistic brick wall.
    — Charlotte Gray, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2021
  • In my journalistic opinion, this boy has no soul and will live an unhappy life.
    — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Her death was a shock to the world and weighed deeply on the journalistic community.
    — Time, 22 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • The contention is that a show need not be journalistic to be newsworthy.
    — Callum Borchers, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • But few have ever called the outlet a symbol of journalistic ethics.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Your journalistic conscience will be full.
    — Bob Herman, STAT, 16 Mar. 2026
  • The reporters onstage were in desperate need of a course in journalistic ethics.
    — Sarah Bahr, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2024
  • As time went on, the film began more and more journalistic and investigative.
    — Elizabeth Wagmeister, Variety, 28 Sep. 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
  • Prior to its release, there was a great deal of journalistic interest in Dune.
    — WIRED, 19 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • There’s one last piece of wood that the survivor is hanging on to, and Daniel is going to keep hanging on to his journalistic ethics.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 23 June 2026
  • The Suns of the '90s were a journalistic feast upon which hacks like me gorged almost daily.
    — azcentral, 16 June 2018
  • Your journalistic work is most refreshing!
    — Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Max believed in the journalistic mission of telling the stories from the hardest-to-reach parts of his country that are still under attack.
    — Guy Davies, ABC News, 25 June 2026
  • And from there, the imagery really became more journalistic.
    — Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Bly went on to publish better journalistic work than Around the World in 72 Days.
    — National Geographic, 5 Apr. 2019
  • Bradley has really crossed a line this time — with Yanko, yes, but surely also with her own journalistic integrity as well.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • And then the other aspect of it is journalistic independence.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 22 Apr. 2026

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