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7 Contemporary journalists
There are numerous examples of journalists turned novelists, both in the past and in the present, amongst them:
8 Production journalists
Despite the fact that many people conflate journalist and reporter, a journalist is anyone who works any editorial aspect of a publications. This includes production journalists such as sub-editors, copy editors, graphic designers, art directors, and photographers. Graphic designers and art directors who work exclusively on advertising material, however, are not considered journalists.
9 Fictional journalists
Atributing the profession of journalist to a fictional character allows many possibilities:
- The action and adventure genres use reporters because they may travel extensively and are supposed not to avoid risks as ordinay people do, but to face them like Tintin).
- In the superhero subgenre, journalists may be among the first to have news of disasters and crimes. Major superheroes like Clark Kent / Superman and Peter Parker / Spider-Man are journalists in their civil lifes.
- Journalists are supposed to explain complex things simply. A clear case is Kermit the frog, but a journalist character is also useful in a fiction work about a country or a culture strange to an adult public. For instance, Guy Hamilton and Billy Kwanin make sense of situation of Indonesia for the Western viewers of The Year of Living Dangerously film, and Ernest Hemingway's alter ego introduces Spain to Anglo readers of Fiesta (The Sun Also Rises).
Besides, many fiction writers like previously cited Hemingway, or Arturo Pérez Reverte, use their professional background as journalists to create their fiction characters.
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