reporternoun [ C ]
uk/rɪˈpɔː.tər/us/rɪˈpɔːr.t̬ɚ/B1 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.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
News reporting & the press
- ambulance chaser
- city desk
- CNN
- court correspondent
- coverage
- desk
- hack
- lay
- lead with sth
- lobby correspondent
- muckraking
- news agency
- news conference
- press box
- silly season
- story
- syndicate
- syndicated
- the gutter press
- the Press Association
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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?