Publicist

Noun

 * 1) A person whose job is to publicize information or events; a publicity agent; a public relations agent or worker
 * 2) A journalist, often a commentator, who focusses on politics
 * 3) (Rare/obsolescent) A scholar of public law, especially public international law, and, sometimes, a scholar of politics.

Thesaurus
AG, DA, KC, QC, SSC, US attorney, annotator, attorney general, book reviewer, city editor, civilian, columnist, commentator, commenter, copy chief, copy editor, copyman, copyreader, corporation lawyer, correspondent, court-appointed lawyer, criminal lawyer, critic, cub reporter, defense counsel, diaskeuast, district attorney, editor, editorial writer, editorialist, expositor, expounder, feature editor, foreign correspondent, gazetteer, glossarist, glossographer, interviewer, journalist, junior counsel, law agent, leader, leader writer, leg man, managing editor, mouthpiece, news analyst, news editor, newsman, newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newswriter, own correspondent, paragrapher, paragraphist, pressman, private attorney, prosecuting attorney, prosecutor, public prosecutor, reader, reporter, reviewer, reviser, rewrite man, rewriter, scholiast, silk, silk gown, slotman, sob sister, solicitor general, special correspondent, special pleader, sports editor, stuff gown, stuff-gownsman, subeditor, war correspondent

Etymology
From publiciste.

Translations

 * French: agent de publicité or agent publicitaire, publicitaire


 * Hungarian: közíró, publicista