Meanings
nounphotojournalist (plural photojournalists)
plural photojournalists
- A journalist who uses photojournalism.
“It’s a way of feeling alive, even when everything around you is falling apart,” Vasilkan, a skateboarder from Odesa, told French photojournalist Robin Tutenges.
2024 July 27, Kyle Almond, “Ukrainian skateboarders take back their streets”, in CNN
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰeh₂-
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰéh₂os
- Proto-Hellenic*pʰáwos
- Ancient Greekφᾰ́ος (phắos)
- Ancient Greekφῶς (phôs)
- Ancient Greekφωτο- (phōto-)
- Englishphoto-
- Englishjournalist
- Englishphotojournalist
From photo- + journalist.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan fotojornalista
- fotojornalistajournalist who uses photojournalism
French photojournaliste
- photojournalistejournalist who uses photojournalism
Greek φωτοδημοσιογράφος
- φωτοδημοσιογράφος (fotodimosiográfos)journalist who uses photojournalism
Hungarian fotóriporter
- fotóriporterjournalist who uses photojournalism
Indonesian jurnalis foto
- jurnalis fotojournalist who uses photojournalism
Irish fóta-iriseoir
- fóta-iriseoirjournalist who uses photojournalism
Italian fotogiornalista, fotoreporter
- fotogiornalistajournalist who uses photojournalism
- fotoreporterjournalist who uses photojournalism
Polish fotoreporter, fotoreporterka
- fotoreporterjournalist who uses photojournalism
- fotoreporterkajournalist who uses photojournalism
Russian фотожурнали́ст, фотожурнали́стка
- фотожурнали́ст (fotožurnalíst)journalist who uses photojournalism
- фотожурнали́стка (fotožurnalístka)journalist who uses photojournalism
Spanish fotoperiodista
- fotoperiodistajournalist who uses photojournalism
Cite this entry
APA
photojournalist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/photojournalist
MLA
“photojournalist.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/photojournalist. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “photojournalist,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/photojournalist.
Source: photojournalist on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.