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

Word History and Origins

Origin of reporter¹

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

Example Sentences

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

From Washington Post

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.

From Washington Post

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.

From Washington Post

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

From ProPublica

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

From Washington Blade

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

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