Fought little bit with journalist penning page (8)
I believe the answer is:
scrapped
'fought' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'little bit with journalist penning page' is the wordplay.
'little bit' becomes 'scrap' (synonyms. I am not sure about the 'little' bit.).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'journalist' becomes 'ed' (short for editor).
'penning' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'page' becomes 'p'.
'scrap'+'ed'='scraped'
'scraped' going around 'p' is 'SCRAPPED'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for scrapped that I've seen before include "dumped" , "Put up fight" , "Abandoned - had a fight" , "Abolished, cancelled" , "Junked or discarded" .)