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Insisted reporters join journalist (7)

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pressed

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'insisted' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with communicating as well as being past participle verbs.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I don't see?

'reporters join journalist' is the wordplay.
'reporters' becomes 'press' (newspaper reporters).
'join' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'journalist' becomes 'ed' (short for editor).
'press'+'ed'='PRESSED'

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(Other definitions for pressed that I've seen before include "Argued strongly and exerted force" , "under some strain" , "Squeezed hard" , "crushed juice" , "Urged U crushed" .)

I've seen this clue in The Mirror.
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