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A journalist is one of the professions that has high public support and should be characterised by high moral and ethical requirements when performing their work, which is to provide information to the public. The aim of this article is to analyse the notion of journalist on a linguistic and legal level. It was made by analysing the definition of a journalist in dictionaries of the Polish language and in the science of social communication and the media, as well as by analysing the dogmatic legal definition of the notion of journalist contained in Article 7(2)(5) of the Press Law.