Male journalist finally occupied covering conflict (6)
I believe the answer is:
edward
'male' is the definition.
(man's name)
'journalist finally occupied covering conflict' is the wordplay.
'journalist' becomes 'ed' (short for editor).
'finally' indicates one should take the final letters.
'covering' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'conflict' becomes 'war' (war is a kind of conflict).
The last letter of 'occupied' is 'd'.
'ed'+'d'='edd'
'edd' placed around 'war' is 'EDWARD'.
(Other definitions for edward that I've seen before include "-- Heath, British PM" , "First name of Mr Rochester (Jane Eyre)" , "Ted" , "Elgar or Lear, for instance" , "King; - Lear" .)