What does reporter mean?
Definitions for reporter
rɪˈpɔr tər, -ˈpoʊr-re·porter
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word reporter.
Princeton's WordNet
reporter, newsman, newspersonnoun
a person who investigates and reports or edits news stories
Wiktionary
reporternoun
Agent noun of report; someone or something that reports.
reporternoun
A journalist who investigates, edits and reports news stories for newspapers, radio and television.
reporternoun
A person who records and issues official reports of judicial or legislative proceedings.
reporternoun
A case reporter; a bound volume of printed legal opinions from a particular jurisdiction.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Reporternoun
Relater; one that gives an account.
Etymology: from report.
There she appear’d; or my reporter devis’d well for her. William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra.
Rumours were raised of great discord among the nobility; for this cause the lords assembled, gave order to apprehend the reporters of these surmises. John Hayward.
If I had known a thing they concealed, I should never be the reporter of it. Alexander Pope.
Wikipedia
reporter
A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalism.
ChatGPT
reporter
A reporter is a person who researches, writes, and presents information through various media outlets such as newspapers, magazines, television, radio, and online platforms. They often conduct interviews, investigate stories, and provide news updates to the public. Reporters are responsible for informing the public about local, national, or global events in an honest and unbiased manner. They may work in a variety of fields including business, politics, sports, or entertainment.
Webster Dictionary
Reporternoun
one who reports
Reporternoun
an officer or person who makes authorized statements of law proceedings and decisions, or of legislative debates
Reporternoun
one who reports speeches, the proceedings of public meetings, news, etc., for the newspapers
British National Corpus
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'reporter' in Nouns Frequency: #1905
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of reporter in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of reporter in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of reporter in a Sentence
We were first made aware of the email late yesterday by a reporter and are reviewing it along with other materials provided to us today by the NFL, we are addressing the matter with Coach Gruden and will have no further comment at this time.
A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom -- it's gone.
We have to have an evidentiary basis to say, when you act, would-be-reporter, you're actually acting at the direction of your government and you don't have an independent journalistic ethos that we think of when we look at a reporter, in fact, not labeling you as a foreign agent is misleading because you're presenting yourself to the American people as somebody who's independent and thinking your own thoughts but you're not, you're getting your thoughts from a foreign government.
Fauci is a disaster. If I listened to him, we'd have 500,000 deaths, if there's a reporter on, The President can have it just the way I said it, I couldn't care less.
Last month, Jane Fonda opened up about spending the night in jail in a lengthy interview with The Hollywood Reporter. The most disturbing part of it was seeing the people in jail and realizing that this country doesnt choose to put enough resources into social safety nets and mental health services because so many of the people are there because of poverty and racism and mental health issues.
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- صحافي, مراسلArabic
- zpravodajCzech
- Reporter, ReporterinGerman
- ρεπόρτερGreek
- raportistoEsperanto
- reporteroSpanish
- رپورتر, گزارشگرPersian
- reporter, journaliste, rapporteurFrench
- riporterHungarian
- reporterItalian
- ジャーナリスト, 報告者, リポーター, 記者Japanese
- ນັກຂ່າວLao
- verslaggeverDutch
- repórter, jornalistaPortuguese
- репортёр, журналист, корреспондентRussian
- reporterSerbo-Croatian
- reportér, spravodajcaSlovak
- muhabirTurkish
- 記者Chinese
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