police reporter

noun

1. a news reporter assigned to cover a police department for newsworthy events.

Word History and Origins

Origin of police reporter¹

First recorded in 1825–35

Example Sentences

His research experience as a sociologist had led him to the pioneering photographs of Jacob Riis, a police reporter for the New York Tribune.

From Los Angeles Times

Michael Connelly, a former Los Angeles Times police reporter who became an author of acclaimed crime novels, said he came to think of Wambaugh as a mentor 25 years before actually meeting him and becoming his friend.

From Los Angeles Times

In Carr’s best-known book, “The Alienist,” John Schuyler Moore is a New York Times police reporter in 1890s Manhattan who helps investigate a series of vicious murders of adolescent boys.

From Seattle Times

He was previously a U.K. correspondent in London and a police reporter in New York.

From New York Times

Schieffer, was a 26-year-old police reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram at the time.

From Los Angeles Times