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Definition: Reporter |
ReporterNoun1. A person who investigates and reports or edits news stories. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "reporter" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1607. (references) |
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Satire | REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words. "More dear than all my bosom knows, O thou Whose 'lips are sealed' and will not disavow!" So sang the blithe reporter-man as grew Beneath his hand the leg-long "interview." Barson Maith. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Occupations | Collects and analyzes information about newsworthy events to write news stories for publication or broadcast: Receives assignment or evaluates news leads and news tips to develop story idea. Gathers and verifies factual information regarding story through interview, observation, and research. Organizes material, determines slant or emphasis, and writes story according to prescribed editorial style and format standards. May monitor police and fire department radio communications to obtain story leads. May take photographs or shoot video to illustrate stories. May edit, or assist in editing, videos for broadcast. May appear on television program when conducting taped or filmed interviews or narration. May give live reports from site of event or mobile broadcast unit. May transmit information to NEWSWRITER (print. & pub.; radio-tv broad.) 131.262-014 for story writing. May specialize in one type of reporting, such as sports, fires, accidents, political affairs, court trials, or police activities. May be assigned to outlying areas or foreign countries and be designated Correspondent (print. & pub.; radio-tv broad.) or Foreign Correspondent (print. & pub.; radio-tv broad.). (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A journalist is a person who writes short articles for publication in a newspaper or a magazine.
Origin and scope of the term
In the early 19th century, the term journalist once meant simply someone who wrote for journals, such as Charles Dickens in his early career, but has come to mean a writer for newsapapers and magazines as well. The term journalist is interchangeable with reporter.Many journalists write for print periodicals, but some also write books or publish on the Internet. Broadcast journalists appear on radio or television.
Regardless of medium, the term journalist now carries a connotation or expectation of professionalism in reporting, with consideration for truth and ethics. This expectation is not always met, as journalists may publicly or privately take sides, but this is not taken lightly when revealed.
19th century journalists
- William Cowper Brann (1855-1898) - colorful editor of the Iconcolast in Waco, Texas.
- Nellie Bly
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge - political essays, poetry, and reportage
- Charles Dickens (1812-1870) - started as a shorthand writer logging debates in the courts and Houses of Parliament before becoming a Parliamentary journalist
- Pierce Egan (1772-1849) - early sportswriter and reporter on popular culture
- Jacob Riis (1849-1914) - journalist and slum reformer
20th century print journalists
- Rhett Baker (1950-2003) - Buffalo Housing committee recording of hearing of Daniel Patrick Moynihan 1999 / Buffalo, N.Y.
- Ben Bradlee, editor of the Washington Post at the time of the Watergate scandal
- Winston Churchill (1874-1965) war correspondent in the Boer War, captured by the Boers
- Claud Cockburn (1904-1981)
- David Halberstam
- Walter Lippmann (1889-1974)
- Jonathan Meades
- H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) - essayist, critic, and editor of the Baltimore Sun.
- George Orwell (1903-1950) - reported on poverty, misery, and the Spanish Civil War
- James (Scotty) Reston
- George Seldes (1890-1995) - American journalist, editor and publisher of In Fact.
- Robert Woodward and Carl Bernstein - uncovered the Watergate scandal.
- Thomas Jackson
- Walter Winchell
- I.F. Stone (1907-1989), investigative journalist, publisher of I.F. Stone's Weekly
20th century broadcast journalists
- Edward R. Murrow, CBS News radio correspondent in London Blitz, maker of TV documentaries, noted interviewer
- Walter Cronkite, former United Press correspondent, TV anchor for CBS News in the 50s, 60s
- David Brinkley, television anchor and interview show host on the American networks ABC and NBC
- Dan Rather, succeeded Cronkite as managing editor and primary anchor of the CBS Evening News
- Sorious Samura, CNN TV documentary maker from Sierra Leone
- Fritz Spiegl, popularizer of classical music for the BBC
Internet journalists
- Matt Drudge - Actively involved in revelations of the scandals of the Clinton administration.
Contemporary journalists
There are numerous examples of journalists turned novelists, both in the past and in the present, amongst them
- Greg Palast
- Robert Fisk
- George Monbiot
- Alexander Cockburn
- Christopher Hitchens
- Barbara Ehrenreich
- Amanda Craig, who writes satirical novels about English society
- David Gates, who wrote about books and music for Newsweek
- Carl Hiaasen, who writes about the corruption and glitter of Miami and Miami Beach, which he also covered as a reporter.
See also
- scientific journalist
- journalism
- Lists of authors
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Journalist."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In molecular biology, a reporter gene (often simply reporter) is a gene that researchers attach to another they wish to study in cell culture, animals or plants. Many of the techniques used for engineering a foreign or modifed gene into an organism work only in a very small percentage of individuals. Researchers use a reporter to easily identify those that have taken up the gene, or which have incorporated it in the desired way into their chromosomes. A common reporter is the gene that encodes jellyfish green fluorescent protein, which causes cells that express it to glow green under UV light.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Reporter gene."
Synonyms: ReporterSynonyms: newsman (n), newsperson (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Book | Writer, author, litterateur, essayist, journalism; pen, scribbler, the scribbling race; literary hack, Grub-street writer; writer for the press, gentleman of the press, representative of the press; adjective jerker, diaskeaust, ghost, hack writer, ink slinger; publicist; reporter, penny a liner; editor, subeditor; playwright; poet. |
Information | Informant, authority, teller, intelligencer, reporter, exponent, mouthpiece; |
Messenger | Reporter, gentleman of the press, representative of the press; penny-a-liner; special correspondent, own correspondent; spy, scout; informer. |
News | Newscaster, newsman, newswoman, reporter, journalist, correspondent, foreign correspondent, special correspondent, war correspondent, news team, news department; anchorman, anchorwoman; sportscaster; weatherman. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Reporter |
| English words defined with "reporter": anchor, anchorman, anchorperson ♦ catch, cover ♦ dispassionate ♦ muckrake ♦ off the record ♦ report, Reportorial ♦ source ♦ trip up. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "reporter": Complete income reporters, court reporter, creator of advertising, cub reporter ♦ FAKIR ♦ HOMER ♦ Inventors Punished ♦ law reporter ♦ Newspaper Reporter ♦ Romance ♦ SHORTHAND REPORTER. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Reporter" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (columnist, correspondent, legman), French (adjourn, bring forward, carry forward, carry over, commentator, defer, hold over, postpone, reporter, transfer, transport), German (commentator, news hawk, news hound, reporter), Italian (press reporter, reporter), Romanian (correspondent, newsman, paragraphist, pressman, reporter), Serbo-Croatian (newshawk, reporter), Swedish (commentator, legman, reporter). |
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Screenplays | I've been a reporter for 25 years and I've never heard that (His Girl Friday; writing credit: Ben Hecht; Charles MacArthur) I know you're just a reporter, but you used to be a person, right (Deep Impact; writing credit: Bruce Joel Rubin; Michael Tolkin) This is Knox, the reporter. (Batman; writing credit: Bob Kane; Sam Hamm) The creature is driven by rage, and is pursued by an investigative reporter (The Incredible Hulk; writing credit: Carol Baxter; Paul M. Belous) I do not like snoopy reporter with lack of fashion sense, not one little bit. (Zoolander; writing credit: Drake Sather; Ben Stiller) | |
Lyrics | A reporter stopped me for an interview ("Rapper's Delight"; performing artist: Sugarhill Gang) This young reporter I did adore, ("Rapper's Delight"; performing artist: Sugarhill Gang) | |
Clever | If you can't say something nice, become a reporter. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Reporter (1964) Reporter Raju (1962) Police Reporter Barney Blake (1948) Reporter Brenda Starr (1945) The Weakly Reporter (1944) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Governor Kitzhaber with Oregonian newspaper reporter Hal Barnton at Big Indian Gorge overlook. Credit: Mark Armstrong & Chris Strebig. |  | Newspaper reporter, possibly Little Joe Moore. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Mickey Cohen speaking with reporter in New York City. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Journalist Lee Mortimer (left) looks down at entertainer, Frank Sinatra (center), talking with reporter during trial for battery against Mortimer; three unidentified men to right, Beverly Hills, California. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | New York, New York. Newsroom of the New York Times newspaper. Reporters and rewrite men writing stories, and waiting to be sent out. Rewrite man in background gets the story on the phone from reporter outside. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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 | Announce; annunciate; speak; tell; impart; television; radio; reporter; forecast; . |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The reporter called it a tragic death |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Colombia | On May 3, Cali-based Telepacifico TV sports reporter Yesid Marulanda Romero was killed. (references) |
Paraguay | A cease and desist order against "ABC Color" reporter Hugo Ruiz Olazar has been lifted. (references) | |
Zambia | Police conducted an investigation and arrested those suspected of assaulting the reporter. (references) | |
Human Rights | Georgia | In October 2000, Antonio Russo, a reporter for Italy's Radio Radicale, was found dead outside of Tbilisi. (references) |
Yugoslavia | On July 12, police detained Predrag Radojevic, a reporter from Valjevo for the newspaper Blic, and subjected him to an "informative talk" about his work as a journalist. (references) | |
Namibia | SFF members reportedly grabbed a notebook and tore up the written notes of a reporter at the scene, briefly confiscated his camera, and arrested him; he was released the same day. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Bangladesh | After their safe and peaceful release on March 17, one of the hostages told a newspaper reporter that one of his abductors had confided that the motive was not political but rather, they wanted money "for the welfare of Chakma people." On June 23, a Bengali truck driver in Khagrachhari District in the Chittagong Hill Tracts was murdered. (references) |
Worker Rights | India | One reporter talked to a buyer, a shopkeeper, who paid $21 (900 Rs) for a 12-year-old child. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, as a domestic horse to the hitching-post, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination -- free, lawless, immune to bit and rein. Your novelist is a poor creature, as Carlyle might say -- a mere reporter. He may invent his characters and plot, but he must not imagine anything taking place that might not occur, albeit his entire narrative is candidly a lie. Why he imposes this hard condition on himself, and "drags at each remove a lengthening chain" of his own forging he can explain in ten thick volumes without illuminating by so much as a candle's ray the black profound of his own ignorance of the matter. There are great novels, for great writers have "laid waste their powers" to write them, but it remains true that far and away the most fascinating fiction that we have is "The Thousand and One Nights." |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | The only thing more indifferent to human suffering than Mother Nature is a mid-market television reporter looking to go national. |
Diane Sawyer | I treat them as sheer fun in all possible directions. I am your dishiest Academy Awards reporter. Don't come to me if you want lofty thoughts, OK. I'm going for the clothes, I'm going for how Russell Crowe looked at me. |
Frank Lindh | Well, Dan, I'm very troubled by that statement as well. I would just ask you to consider the fact that he was being pressed by a reporter after being pulled out of the basement of a prison where he went through that horrible ordeal. |
Gotham Chopra | Channel One is great. I mean Channel One, I think we practice a unique style of journalism, and for the journalist it's great because it makes you feel like Indiana Jones, because the stories are always centered around, you know, the reporter. |
Rush Limbaugh | Investigative reporter David Rose documents the links so many on the Left deny exist, so they can continue appeasing this monster as their ilk appeased Hitler. |
Walter Cronkite | I'm just back from the biggest assignment that any American reporter could have so far in this war. And when we were permitted to write, there was plenty to report. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Reporter" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.66% of the time. "Reporter" is used about 1,180 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.66% | 1,176 | 6,562 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.34% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,180 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "reporter": cub reporter ♦ investigative reporter ♦ law reporter ♦ market reporter ♦ press reporter ♦ reporter gene ♦ reporter pool ♦ roving reporter ♦ special reporter ♦ star reporter ♦ television reporter ♦ TV reporter. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "reporter": reporter-cyclist, reporter-the. | |
Ending with "reporter": cat-reporter, co-reporter, cub-reporter, ex-reporter, fellow-reporter. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "reporter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | raportues, korrespondent (correspondent, paper boy). (various references) | |
Arabic | مراسل صحفي, المخبر (fink, informer, intelligencer), المراسل صحفي, المدون (record, recorder), الصحافي (publicist). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | репортер (legman, pressman, rep), докладчик (promoter, rapporteur). (various references) | |
Chinese | 记者, 記者 (journalist). (various references) | |
Czech | reportér (commentator, interviewer), referent (officer, speaker), zpravodaj (correspondent, informant), hlasatel (announcer, broadcaster, harbinger, Herald, newscaster, speaker). (various references) | |
Danish | reporter. (various references) | |
Dutch | verslaggever,verslaggeefster. (various references) | |
Farsi | گزارشگر, خبرنگار. (various references) | |
Finnish | reportteri, uutisenhankkija, selostaja (commentator). (various references) | |
French | reporter. (various references) | |
German | Reporter (commentator, news hawk, news hound), Berichterstatter (correspondent, recorder, reporters). (various references) | |
Greek | ρεπόρτερ (news reporter, newscaster). (various references) | |
Hebrew | פרטר, עתו אי (journalist, pressman, publicist), כתב (bill, correspondent, document, script, scripture, write, writing), "וח. (various references) | |
Hungarian | tudósító (advertising, correspondent, informant, news agent), riporter (interviewer, news hawk, newsman, newsmen). (various references) | |
Indonesian | wartawan (corespondent, journalist, presser), pengabar, pemberita. (various references) | |
Italian | reporter (press reporter). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 記者 , 記者 , リボ払い (liposteroid, paper, report, revolving payments), レプトス"ラ症 (lepra, leptospirosis, level, lowering the level, paper, proceed to the next level, raising the level of, replica, report, revolt, revolution, revolver), 告者 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | リポーター , レポーター , きしゃ (almsgiving, company, equestrian archery, return to office, shooting on horseback, train), ほう"くしゃ. (various references) | |
Korean | 취재원. (various references) | |
Manx | naighteyr (journalist, newspaperman, pressman). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eporterray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | reportagem (outside broadcast, remote), repórter (pressman), relator (comptroller, referendary), jornalista (female journalist, journalist, newsman, pressman, publicist, scribbler). (various references) | |
Romanian | reporter (correspondent, newsman, paragraphist, pressman), raportor (protractor, speaker), ziarist (correspondent, journalist, newsman, newspaperman, paragraphist, pressman), stenograf parlamentar, jurnalist (gazetteer, newspaperman), gazetar (gazetteer, journalist, newsman, pressman). (various references) | |
Russian | репортер (legman, newshawk, space-writer). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | reporter (newshawk), novinar (journalist, news-man), korespondent (correspondent), dopisnik (correspondent, informant, pressman). (various references) | |
Spanish | reportero (newshound). (various references) | |
Swazi | úm-bíki. (various references) | |
Swedish | reporter (commentator, legman), referens (referee, reference). (various references) | |
Turkish | raportör (rapporteur, referee), muhbir (delator, denunciator, finger, finger man, informant, informer, intelligencer, nark, rat, setter, snout, split, squealer, squealler, stooge, stool pigeon, tipster), muhabir (correspondent, intelligencer, legman), haberci (courier, despatch rider, dispatch rider, forerunner, harbinger, Herald, messenger, precursor, runner, summoner), bilgi veren kimse (communicant, informant). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | репортер (bloodhound, newshawk, newshawker, newshound, newsman, paragrapher, paragraphist), радіокоментатор (commentator, newscaster), доповідач. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người báo cáo phóng viên nh báo. (various references) | |
Welsh | gohebydd (correspondent). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "reporter": reporters. (additional references) | |
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"Reporter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: rapporter, reparter, repore, reportare, reportat, reporte, reportee, reporten, Reposteria. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "reporter" (pronounced rupô"rter) |
| 6 | -u p ô" r t er | supporter. |
| 5 | -p ô" r t er | exporter, importer, porter, transporter. |
| 4 | -ô" r t er | Courter, mortar, quarter, shorter, sorter. |
| 3 | -r t er | barter, Carter, charter, darter, garter, headquarter, hindquarter, martyr, nonstarter, Sartor, smarter, starter, tartar, Tarter. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-o-p-r-r-r-t" | |
-2 letters: perter, porter, pretor, report, retore, terror. | |
-3 letters: error, peter, repot, repro, retro, roper, topee, toper, trope. | |
-4 letters: peer, pert, poet, pore, port, pree, repo, rete, rope, rote, tope, tore, torr, tree, trop. | |
-5 letters: ere, err, ope, opt, ore, ort, pee, per, pet, pot, pro, ree, rep, ret, roe, rot, tee, toe, top, tor. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-o-p-r-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: repertory, reporters. | |
+2 letters: overreport, repertoire. | |
+3 letters: overreports, perpetrator, repertoires, repertories, underreport. | |
+4 letters: baroreceptor, hypercorrect, hyperreactor, overreported, perpetrators, petrographer, proprietress, respirometer, respirometry, tetrapyrrole, underreports, waterproofer. | |
+5 letters: baroreceptors, hyperreactors, overreporting, petrographers, proprietaries, reappropriate, reincorporate, respirometers, respirometric, tetrapyrroles, underreported, waterproofers. | |
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