Looked for celebrity journalist (6)
I believe the answer is:
stared
'looked' is the definition.
(staring is a kind of looking)
'celebrity journalist' is the wordplay.
'celebrity' becomes 'star' (a star is a celebrity or famous person).
'journalist' becomes 'ed' (short for editor).
'star'+'ed'='STARED'
'for' is the link.
(Other definitions for stared that I've seen before include "Treads (anag)" , "Regarded fixedly" , "Looked at long and fixedly" , "Gaped" , "Looked fixedly (at something)" .)