Forced walking stick on journalist (7)
I believe the answer is:
stilted
'forced' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'walking stick on journalist' is the wordplay.
'walking stick' becomes 'stilt' (I've seen this in another clue).
'on' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'journalist' becomes 'ed' (short for editor).
'stilt'+'ed'='STILTED'
(Other definitions for stilted that I've seen before include "Bombastic (of speech, writing)" , "Unnatural sounding and overformal" , "Stiff and pompous" , "Stiff and unnatural" , "Artificially formal or contrived" .)