Journalist

A journalist is a person who practices journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues and people.

Fictional journalists

: Main article: List of fictional journalists

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Attributing the profession of journalist to a fictional character allows many possibilities:

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• The action and adventure genres use reporters because they may travel extensively and are supposed to face risks.
• In the superhero subgenre, journalists may be among the first to have news of disasters and crimes, easing complications arising from maintaining a secret identity. Major superheroes like Clark Kent / Superman and Peter Parker / Spider-Man are journalists in their civil lives.
• Journalists can provide a vehicle for the author to explain complex things. For instance, Guy Hamilton and Billy Kwan make sense of the politics of Indonesia in the early 1960s for the Western viewers of The Year of Living Dangerously, and Ernest Hemingway's alter ego introduces Spain to Anglo readers of Fiesta (The Sun Also Rises).

Many fiction writers like Hemingway and Arturo Pérez Reverte use their professional background as journalists to create their fiction characters.

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