Meaning of reporter in English

reporter

/rɪˈpɔː.tər/ us

/rɪˈpɔːr.t̬ɚ/

a person whose job is to discover information about news events and describe them for a newspaper or magazine or for radio or television

Examples

She bluffed the doorman into thinking that she was a reporter.
Now we're going live to our reporter in Washington for up-to-the-minute news on the crisis.
A large crowd of reporters collected outside the prime minister's house.
The reporters wouldn't stop hounding her.
The US lodged a formal protest against the arrest of the foreign reporters.

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Examples from literature

TV and newspaper reporters camped outside the hospital.
The reporters were there too, and they were almost fighting with each other to get interviews.
The rescuers also lived there, and the number of reporters grew and grew.
Was it necessary to protect the miners from reporters?

(Definition of reporter from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

reporter | American Dictionary

reporter

noun [ C ]

/rɪˈpɔr·t̬ər, -ˈpoʊr·t̬ər/

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a person whose job is to discover information about news events and describe them for a newspaper or magazine or for radio or television

(Definition of reporter from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of reporter

reporter

Throughout the nineteenth century crop reporters had been elected like representatives of townships.

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The reporters' personal interpretations hold no place in the exposition of facts.

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We did not detect any reporter+ cells with neuronal morphology in the olfactory bulb of double transgenic mice.

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The reporter watched the lawyers of the criminals who was speaking to the judge.

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They may involve fixed costs of maintaining a set of reporters and a configuration of costly production and transmission technology.

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By definition, if one reporter disagrees with another, the same child is credited with different levels of knowledge of particular items.

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At 8:40 am, watched by reporters from various news media, the plane started its engine and began slowly to move toward the runway.

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Thus, there is much more agreement between the reporters on items that the child does not know than on items that the child does know.

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More fundamentally, it does not say anything about the degree of agreement between reporters on specific items.

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The greater the child's communicative ability, as rated by any one reporter, the more differences tended to emerge between reporters.

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Ninety reporters attended the proceedings and fifty-eight briefs were submitted by some 150 interest groups.

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To reduce the number of variables in analysis, scores were averaged across reporters.

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A reporter will not attempt to answer these questions explicitly as s/he writes a story.

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Fold-induction is calculated relative to the activity of each reporter alone.

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We also evaluate systematic tendencies for specific reporter pairs to agree with each other more than other pairs.

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Collocations with reporter

reporter

These are words often used in combination with reporter.

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female reporter

Darryl accidentally told a female reporter at a bar after work about the videotaped printer catching on fire.

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freelance reporter

The caller was a woman who said that she was a freelance reporter who needed my help.

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full-time reporter

She bonds with the children in her care, ultimately deciding to turn down a position which she was offered as a full-time reporter.

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What is the pronunciation of reporter?

Translations of reporter

in Chinese (Traditional)

記者, 通訊員…

in Chinese (Simplified)

记者, 通讯员…

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reportero, reportera, corresponsal [masculine-feminine…

in Portuguese

repórter, repórter [masculine-feminine]…

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बातमीदार…

レポーター, 記者, 記者（きしゃ）…

muhabir, haber muhabiri/spikeri, sunucu…

reporter [masculine], reporter…

reporter, -a…

verslaggever…

செய்தி நிகழ்வுகளைப் பற்றிய தகவல்களைக் கண்டுபிடித்து அவற்றை ஒரு செய்தித்தாள் அல்லது பத்திரிகைக்காகவோ அல்லது வானொலி அல்லது தொலைக்காட்சிக்காகவோ விவரிப்பதை ஒரு வேலையாக செய்யும் நபர்…

(अखबार, पत्रिका, रेडियो या टेलीविज़न का) संवाददाता…

ખબરપત્રી…

reporter, journalist…

reporter…

wartawan…

der Reporter / die Reporterin…