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

  1. reporter, newsman, newspersonnoun

    a person who investigates and reports or edits news stories

Wiktionary

  1. reporternoun

    Agent noun of report; someone or something that reports.

  2. reporternoun

    A journalist who investigates, edits and reports news stories for newspapers, radio and television.

  3. reporternoun

    A person who records and issues official reports of judicial or legislative proceedings.

  4. reporternoun

    A case reporter; a bound volume of printed legal opinions from a particular jurisdiction.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. Reporternoun

    one who reports

  2. Reporternoun

    an officer or person who makes authorized statements of law proceedings and decisions, or of legislative debates

  3. Reporternoun

    one who reports speeches, the proceedings of public meetings, news, etc., for the newspapers

British National Corpus

  1. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'reporter' in Nouns Frequency: #1905

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of reporter in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of reporter in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of reporter in a Sentence

  1. Ron Paul:

    I think I should have more patience, i think it's pretty equal opportunity. I was annoyed with a male reporter this morning. I will have to get better at holding my tongue and holding my temper.

  2. Mark DeSaulnier:

    I would like to be part of re-establishing journalism as a sacred part of American democracy as it once was, the industry right now is going through a tough time, said John Stanton, the former Washington Bureau chief at BuzzFeed News, during the press conference. Were at a crisis point in the industry, and its good that Congress is taking a look at these issues and how these big tech companies are affecting our ability to do our job. Stanton, who was laid off from BuzzFeed earlier this year, recently launched the Save Journalism project with Laura Bassett, the former senior politics reporter at HuffPost. Bassett was laid off from HuffPost in January. FACEBOOKS AVERAGE US USER SPENT 38 MINUTES PER DAY ON THE PLATFORM, A DROP FROM 2017, BUT INSTAGRAM USAGE INCREASED.

  3. Gawker Heather Dietrick:

    We are facing a trial in Hulk Hogan’s hometown, which is obviously difficult, like them having a home court advantage, but I think that we will be able to tell our story in a persuasive way, i don’t think you have to be a First Amendment scholar to understand the importance of the story, whether or not it’s about a sex tape or some other piece of leaked info – it is important for a reporter to tell a real story in the face of misinformation out there.

  4. President Trump:

    You're a third-rate reporter. And what you just said is a disgrace, that was a nasty question from CNN.

  5. The President:

    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.

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