reporter
NounUS[rih-pawr-ter]/rɪˈpɔrtɚ/3 syllables
Synonyms:
newsperson
Open English WordNet
Noun (1)reporters
- a person who investigates and reports or edits news storiesSynonyms: newspersonType of communicatorKinds newswoman, television reporter, newsman
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Re·port′er (-ẽr), noun
One who reports. Specifically: (a) An officer or person who makes authorized statements of law proceedings and decisions, or of legislative debates. (b) One who reports speeches, the proceedings of public meetings, news, etc., for the newspapers.
Of our tales judge and reportour.— Geoffrey Chaucer
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
The Devil's Dictionary
REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.
"More dear than all my bosom knows, O thou Whose 'lips are sealed' and will not disavow!" So sang the blithe reporter-man as grew Beneath his hand the leg-long "interview." Barson Maith