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reporter

[ ri-pawr-ter, -pohr- ]

noun

  1. a person who reports.
  2. a person employed to gather and report news, as for a newspaper, wire service, or television station.
  3. a person who prepares official reports, as of legal or legislative proceedings.


reporter

/ rɪˈpɔːtə /

noun

  1. a person who reports, esp one employed to gather news for a newspaper, news agency, or broadcasting organization
  2. a person, esp a barrister, authorized to write official accounts of judicial proceedings
  3. a person authorized to report the proceedings of a legislature
  4. in Scotland social welfare an official who arranges and conducts children's panel hearings and who may investigate cases and decide on the action to be taken
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of reporter1

1350–1400; Middle English reportour < Anglo-French ( Old French reporteur ). See report, -er 1
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Example Sentences

She helped found and later served as executive director of Capitolbeat, which provided training and support to statehouse editors and reporters.

During a break in the trial, Romney told reporters he had no idea how close he’d been to harm’s way — nor that Goodman was the officer who had helped him.

Still, Cassidy — facing censure threats from his own party in Louisiana — told reporters that his vote Tuesday only means he is keeping an open mind.

She has also worked as a reporter for the Chicago Tribune, the Morning Call in Allentown, Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Press and other newspapers.

Weeks later in August, a reporter with the Daily Caller made inquiries regarding Weaver, which Madrid discussed in internal communications.

A Charlie Hebdo reporter said that security provision had been relaxed in the last month or so and the police car disappeared.

This reporter knocked at the Wilkins home on Tuesday morning but received neither an answer nor the business end of a shotgun.

As zealots poured in from Arkansas and Mississippi, a wire service reporter got punched in the ribs.

When a reporter asked him a question, it would often elicit a series of Jesuitical responses.

One of the rites of passage for every young political reporter is to listen to the elders tell stories about campaigns past.

But, really, nobody must know that I am a mere society reporter on the Centerport Courier.

This matter of her mother being a society reporter, Jess feared, would cost them more in the end than it was worth to them.

There was no doubt in my mind but that the newspaper article stemmed from Mr. Hamblen's visit with a newspaper reporter.

A lady, carrying a small workbasket in her hand, bade the reporter good-evening as she passed out.

I was a regular attendant in the capacity of reporter for the newspaper upon which I was employed.

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