WordNet
n. a journalist who sends news reports and commentary from a combat zone or place of battle for publication or broadcast
Wikipedia
A war correspondent is a journalist who covers stories firsthand from a war zone. They were also called special correspondents in the 19th century.
Usage examples of "war correspondent".
The corpses I have had to smell as a soldier and war correspondent smelled much worse than all the fish, birds, and deer I have scaled, skinned, or gutted as a sportsman.
Ann Chambers was a war correspondent for the Chambers News Service.
Rather, Brandon Chambers had believed his daughter when she told him that either he send her to London as a war correspondent, or she would go to work for Gardiner Cowles--the publisher of, among other things, Look magazine--with whom he had carried on a running feud for twenty years, and who -was just the kind of a sonofabitch to give Ann a job just because he knew it would annoy her father.
The only time his voice left the range from petulant to irritable was when he was talking to a war correspondent: then he spoke gently as any sucking dove.
McCoy and Zimmerman are by nature taciturn men, and they certainly were not about to offer their opinion of what they saw to a war correspondent.
Ruben Salazar was a veteran war correspondent, but he had never shed blood under fire.
Nevertheless, his conventional formality and cleanliness made me feel like a fraud in my war correspondent’.
I haven't been able to get in touch with the blond war correspondent.
Would you care to venture a guess as to what well-known lady war correspondent gave a dose of clap to what well-known major-general in Paris .
As a matter of fact you are now the dragoman of a war correspondent and you were engaged and are paid to be one.
The young Ohio journalist and war correspondent Whitelaw Reid sat on the sofa beneath Hamilton's portrait, a copy of Chase's elegant little book Going Home to Vote in his hand.
He just phoned to say he's going to be a war correspondent if Daddy will let him.