Reporter
[rɪ'pɔːtə] or [rɪ'pɔrtɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a person who investigates and reports or edits news stories.
Editor: Woodrow--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who reports.
(n.) An officer or person who makes authorized statements of law proceedings and decisions, or of legislative debates.
(n.) One who reports speeches, the proceedings of public meetings, news, etc., for the newspapers.
Edited by Dorothy
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.
Checker: Nellie
Examples
- This, it will be seen, is partly explained by his work for years as a press reporter. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The difficulty is to detach the framework of fact--of absolute undeniable fact--from the embellishments of theorists and reporters. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The reporters assured the world that the Wrights had proved the success of the heavier than air machine. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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