Following a strike, senior journalist is humiliated (7)
I believe the answer is:
abashed
'humiliated' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'following a strike senior journalist' is the wordplay.
'following' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'strike' becomes 'bash' (I've seen this before).
'senior journalist' becomes 'ed' (abbreviation for editor).
'a' put next to 'bash' is 'abash'.
'abash'+'ed'='ABASHED'
'is' is the link.
(Other definitions for abashed that I've seen before include "'Self-conscious, embarrassed (7)'" , "Stricken with shame" , "Made embarrassed" , "Made ashamed" , "Had base (anag.)" .)