reporter
/rɪˈpɔːtə(r)/ (bre, ipa) · /rɪˈpɔːrtər/ (ame, ipa) · /ri-ˈpȯr-tər/ (ame, mw)
reporter — noun
- reportersingular
- reportersplural
1. someone who works for a newspaper, website, TV station, or radio programme findi
someone who works for a newspaper, website, TV station, or radio programme finding out about recent events and writing or talking about them for the public
Manuela, a newspaper reporter, spent the morning interviewing people at the market about the policy.
reporter + interviewing [people] about [topic]
Niran spent eight years as a reporter for a local TV station covering education news.
work as a reporter for [media outlet] / covers [topic]
Hao was the first reporter to arrive at the fire scene with a camera crew.
The young reporter asked the mayor several direct questions about the new housing plan.
Zuri carries a notebook because a good reporter never knows when a story will appear.
- journalist
broader term covering editors, columnists, and photographers — not limited to field reporting
- correspondent
often used for reporters based in a specific city or covering a specialist topic such as health or politics
- newscaster
reads the news on TV or radio rather than gathering stories firsthand; not a synonym