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reporter

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In Scotland , reporter is the title given to various officials of the Scottish Government . In the context of spatial planning , reporters perform the equivalent function of planning inspectors in England and Wales. The Chief Reporter is Lindsey Nicoll. ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reporter \Re*port"er\ (-[~e]r), n. One who reports. Specifically: An officer or person who makes authorized statements of law proceedings and decisions, or of legislative debates. One who reports speeches, the proceedings of public meetings, news, etc., ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., reportour , "one who gives an account," agent noun from report (v.), or from Old French reporteur (Modern French rapporteur ). In the newspaper sense, from 1798. French reporter in this sense is a 19c. borrowing from English.

Usage examples of reporter.

An Associated Press reporter asked me to respond to the news that a letter containing anthrax had been delivered to the Washington office of my colleague, Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle.

How would you like to be the only reporter present when I turn myself in and the world finds out who killed Blane Gray?

The keen-eyed reporters for the daily papers were thrown off the scent, and when we returned to the city we took rooms at the Brandreth House, where Mrs.

Whenever I looked at him, I wanted to strangle him, so instead I looked around the courtroom, at the bailiff, the guards, at the bored reporters scattered in the otherwise empty seats, at the detectives sitting in the front row behind the prosecution table, Stone leaning back, arms stretched out, Breger hunched forward in weariness.

The reporters all wanted to know if the burglary was related to the malpractice suit.

A reporter asked who I was, but Marit waved the question off with casual disregard.

Buchan blithely misinformed reporters in the gymnasium of Crawford Middle School, which served as the press filing center.

But now the reviving nationalisms, the resuscitating social and commercial interests of the moribund old world system, were acutely aware of the immense significance of events at Basra, and there had gathered an assemblage of delegations, reporters, adventurers, friends and camp followers of every description, far exceeding the numbers of the actual Fellows.

Maintaining this balance between intimacy and disinterest is a challenge for a reporter at any time, but trying to do it in a place such as Beirut was unusually difficult because you were living amid one side in a multisided conflict, and that side, as well as all the others, was not above doing physical harm to anyone who was too critical of them or too understanding of their enemies.

A reporter made contact with her stepsister and learned that she had led a peripatetic life, with Colin often changing jobs.

It had been easier to send a photographer who could write stories than it had to send a photographer and a reporter, especially in the little one-seater Hitoris they were ordering now, which was how I got to be a photojournalism And since that had worked out so well, why send either?

And after the opening-bell South Carolina debate in early May, Kerry dispatched two media consultants, two pollsters and a passel of press aides to spin webs for reporters.

Still, the fact remains that Portia and her admirer said nothing that might not have been taken down by a shorthand reporter and printed in a manual for daily use in crowded drawing-rooms.

Reporters were out interviewing the protesters, feeding the hungry broadband predigested opinion and some visuals.

But she scripted the whole thing, allowing the reporters to read prescreened questions, to which Titus read prepared answers.