What is "stringer"

Stringer \String"er\ (str[i^]ng"[~e]r), n.

1. One who strings; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows.

   Be content to put your trust in honest stringers.
   --Ascham.

2. A libertine; a wencher. [Obs.]
   --Beau. & Fl.

3. (Railroad) A longitudinal sleeper.

4. (Shipbuilding) A streak of planking carried round the inside of a vessel on the under side of the beams.

5. (Carp.) A long horizontal timber to connect uprights in a frame, or to support a floor or the like.

6. (Newspapers) A reporter or correspondent who works for a news agency on a part-time basis, especially one covering local news for a newspaper published in a different area; -- called also string correspondent.

7. (Aviation) a longitudinal supporting structure to reinforce the skin of an airplane fuselage.

early 15c., "one who makes bow-strings," agent noun from string (v.). Meaning "newspaper correspondent paid by length of copy" is from 1950, probably from earlier figurative sense of "one who strings words together" (1774).

n. 1 Someone who threads something; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows. 2 Someone who leads someone along. 3 A horizontal timber that supports upright posts, or supports the hull of a vessel 4 A freelance correspondent not on the regular newspaper staff, especially one retained on a part-time basis to report on events in a particular place. 5 (context surfing English) Wooden strip running lengthwise down the centre of a surfboard, for strength. 6 (context baseball slang 1800s English) A hard-hit ball. 7 (context fishing English) A cord or chain, sometimes with additional loop, that is threaded through the mouth and gills of caught fish. 8 A pallet or skid used when shipping LTL freight. A platform typically constructed of timber or plastic designed such that freight may be stacked on top, able to be lifted by a forklift. 9 (context obsolete English) A libertine; a wencher.

1. n. a member of a squad on a team; "a first stringer"; "a second stringer"

2. a worker who strings; "a stringer of beads"

3. brace consisting of a longitudinal member to strengthen a fuselage or hull

4. a long horizontal timber to connect uprights

Stringer may refer to:

• Stringer (name), includes a list of people with the name
• Stringer (aircraft), or longeron, a strip of wood or metal to which the skin of an aircraft is fastened
• Stringer (journalism), a type of freelance journalist
• The Stringer, an online news publication based in Australia
• Stringer (slag), an inclusion, possibly leading to a defect, in cast metal
• Strake or stringer, a longitudinal internal member in boat and ship building
• Stringer (surfing), a thin piece of wood running from nose to tail of a surfboard
• Stringer, the structural member in a stairway that supports the treads and risers

In journalism, a stringer is a freelance journalist or photographer who contributes reports or photos to a news organization on an ongoing basis but is paid individually for each piece of published or broadcast work.

As freelancers, stringers do not receive a regular salary and the amount and type of work is typically voluntary. However, stringers often have an ongoing relationship with one or more news organizations, to which they provide content on particular topics or locations when the opportunities arise.

The term is typically confined to news industry jargon. In print or in broadcast terms, stringers are sometimes referred to as correspondents or contributors; at other times, they may not receive any public recognition for the work they have contributed.

A reporter or photographer can "string" for a news organization in a number of different capacities and with varying degrees of regularity, so that the relationship between the organization and the stringer is typically very loose. When it is difficult for a staff reporter or photographer to reach a location quickly for breaking news stories, larger news organizations often rely on local stringers to provide rapid scene descriptions, quotations or photos. In this capacity, stringers are used heavily by most television news organizations and some print publications for video footage, photos, and interviews.

A superstringer is a long-term freelance journalist, usually a contract worker for one or more news organizations. Traditionally, stringers freelance for a period of time and then become employed full-time by a news organization, but with the collapse of the traditional newspaper advertising model and the emergence of the Internet, many stringers are becoming superstringers.

Stringers are filaments of slag left in wrought iron after the production process. In their correct proportions their presence is beneficial, as they help to control the ductility of the finished product, but when the proportion of slag is too high, or when the filaments run at right angles to the direction of tension, they can cause weakness.

Stringer (pronounced to rhyme with "ringer") is an English occupational surname and occasionally used as a given name. It originally denoted a maker of rope or strings, and especially those for the famous English longbows used for both hunting and war. It is based on an agent derivative of the Old English streng, meaning "string," which is in turn based on the Old Norse strengr. In Yorkshire, where it is still particularly common, George Redmonds argues that the surname may have been connected with ironworking, a stringer having operated some form of specialist hearth.

Early examples of the surname recorded in authentic registers and charters of the medieval period include:

The first recorded spelling of the family name is believed to be that of Walter Stringere, which was dated 1194, in the Curia Regis Rolls for Wiltshire.