Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(orig. Aus.) a journalist, also attrib.

1966		Baker Aus. Lang. (2nd edn) 367: The Journos (a Sydney name for its Journalists’ Club).
1973		Tharunka 8 Nov. 28/3: Enter Yoeman Bedell with the forces of Light to eject two illegitimate would-be journos from another place.
1985		B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 18: Journos and fillum distributors who couldn’t distribute their own piss in a hurricane.
1989		T. Blacker Fixx 132: Warbling in a recording studio, interviewed by a tame journo.
1997		J. Birmingham Tasmanian Babes Fiasco (1998) 126: Tony, the old journo [...] was a terrible boozer.
2000		Guardian 14 Jan. 20: Mr Major did not want to be prodded into action by some outside journo asking awkward questions.
2005		Aus. Transport News 8 Apr. 🌐 Respected journo Paul Barry will be following a cowboy truck driver.
2009		L. McIlvanney All the Colours 147: This was the last of the journo pubs.
2010		L. Redhead Thrill City [ebook] After moving to Melbourne [and] becoming a crime journo.
2011		IOL News Western Cape) 9 May 🌐 SABC mourns journo’s death.
2016		V. McDermid Out of Bounds (2017) 338: The journo had written a short pithy account.
2017		T. Spicer Good Girl Stripped Bare 64: I’m the only journo at the scene.
2020		D. Whish-Wilson Shore Leave 107: Louise and Maddie, her journo friend.
2023		D. Whish-Wilson I Am Already Dead 179: [T]he newspapers, the journos and writers who sniffed around, looking for the story.