reporter
[noun]
Synonyms: journalist, correspondent, hack (derogatory), journo (slang), pressman, writer

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English Thesaurus: journalist, reporter, correspondent, columnist, hack, ...

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re‧port‧er S3 /rɪˈpɔːtə $ -ˈpɔːrtər/ noun [countable]
[Word Family: noun: report, reporter, reportage, reporting; verb: report; adverb: reportedly; adjective: unreported]
someone whose job is to write about news events for a newspaper, or to tell people about them on television or on the radio ⇒ correspondent, journalist:
a news reporter

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

reporter
noun
ADJ. chief | cub, junior, trainee | foreign | local | newspaper, radio, television/TV | crime, financial, news, political, sports | investigative | freelance
VERB + REPORTER speak to, talk to, tell We were warned not to talk to reporters.
PREP. ~ for/with She then became a crime reporter with a national newspaper.
~ from The secret was leaked to a reporter from the ‘New York Times’.
~ on the chief reporter on the ‘Daily Herald’
 ⇒ Note at JOB

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

reporter

a newspaper reporter
The case attracted newspaper reporters from all over the world.
a television/radio reporter
He told television reporters that he had no plans to resign.
a news/crime/sports reporter
He started as a news reporter on Radio 1.
a political reporter
Pinchetti became the magazine's top political reporter.
an investigative reporter (=one that tries to find out about something important)
Two investigative reporters wrote an article linking the CIA to cocaine trafficking in Los Angeles.

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journalist someone who writes for a newspaper or magazine:
She worked as a journalist on the New York Times.
I've always wanted to be a journalist.
reporter someone whose job is to find out about news stories and ask questions for a newspaper, television or radio company etc:
A crowd of reporters were waiting outside the house all night.
He told reporters that he had no intention of resigning.
correspondent someone who writes news articles or does reports about a particular subject, especially a serious one, for a newspaper or news organization:
our economics correspondent
a war correspondent
He was the BBC's correspondent in Moscow.
columnist someone who writes articles, especially about a particular subject, that appear regularly in a newspaper or magazine:
an influential financial columnist
a gossip columnist
hack informal a disapproving word for a journalist, especially one whose work is of low quality:
The editor sent one of his hacks to interview the murderer’s girlfriend.
newsman/woman (also newspaperman/woman) a general word for someone who works for a newspaper, especially a reporter or editor:
an experienced newspaperman
the press newspapers and journalists in general:
The press always like a good story about the royal family.
the right-wing press
Fleet Street the British press. This phrase comes from the street in London, where many newspapers used to have their offices:
Relations between the government and Fleet Street aren't as cosy as they once were.

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