The phrase "a time when journalists" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a specific period or event in which journalists were involved in a particular activity or situation.
Example: "There was a time when journalists played a crucial role in uncovering government corruption."
Alternatives: "an era in which journalists" or "a period when journalists".
There was a time when journalists held their political cards very close to the vest.
At a time when journalists have lost much public trust, The Times's stand is principled and inspiring.
I entered games writing at a time when journalists and readers were a club, with in-jokes and trust and kinship.
But never has there been a time when journalists have faced such odds of being in the right place at the wrong time.
But not now, not in a time when journalists who cover the sport are still trying to figure out what lines should be drawn in weighing achievements on the field against whatever drug use may have occurred off it.
It belonged to a time when journalists believed that fearlessness and humor and honesty could make a difference; and it's sad to be reminded that the time in which such a faith was possible has probably passed.
And not to split hairs, but there was a time when journalistic ethics required that journalists not engage in political speech.
Bespectacled and conservatively dressed, Mr. Barbosa Lima seemed like a throwback to a more genteel time when journalists and statesmen debated political ideas as vociferously as Internet tycoons and foreign-educated economists discuss economics in the Brazil of today.
The same opportunity applies to the whole of Christmas because it is the only time when journalists and editors are allowed to behave like they did in the olden days of Fleet Street when excess was part of the job description.
Credit View full screen At a time when many journalists in post-Soviet states have turned their attention to the encroaching threat of Russia, the photographer Dina Oganova has continued to document life in her home country of Georgia.
Staff at RTVV are now in revolt against their own administration, a startling turnaround from a time when senior journalists suggested a climate of intimidation and political pressure existed there due to the station's rightwing controllers.
