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Journalist perhaps gets server to pull article for recipe (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

writer

'journalist perhaps' is the definition.
(journalist is a kind of writer)

I cannot understand how the rest of the clue works.

(Other definitions for writer that I've seen before include "Scribe, author" , "Quiller" , "See 1, 12, 15, 23 across and 3, 6, 9 down" , "Memorandum could one produce?" , "Author; correspondent" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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