Greatly admired this writer/solid broadcast journalist (8)
I believe the answer is:
idolised
'greatly admired this writersolid broadcast' is the definition.
The definition suggests a singular noun but the answer is not.
'journalist' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'journalist' could be 'ed' (short for editor) and 'ed' is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for idolised that I've seen before include "placed on a pedestal" , "Worshipped like graven image" , "Adored and worshipped" , "Worshipped, say graven image" , "put on a pedestal" .)