 |
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Reporter \Re*port"er\ (-[~e]r), noun One who reports. Specifically: (a) An officer or person who makes authorized statements of law proceedings and decisions, or of legislative debates. (b) One who reports speeches, the proceedings of public meetings, news, etc., for the newspapers.
Of our tales judge and reportour. --Chaucer.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
reporter
noun: a person who investigates and reports or edits news stories [syn: {newsman}, {newsperson}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
102 Moby Thesaurus words for "reporter": a tale-bearing animal, adviser, anchorman, announcer, annunciator, authority, broadcaster, busybody, cameraman, channel, city editor, columnist, commentator, communicant, communicator, copy chief, copy editor, copyman, copyreader, correspondent, cub reporter, diaskeuast, editor, editorial writer, enlightener, expert witness, feature editor, foreign correspondent, gazetteer, gossip, gossip columnist, gossiper, gossipmonger, grapevine, herald, informant, information center, information medium, informer, interviewee, interviewer, journalist, leader writer, leg man, managing editor, monitor, mouthpiece, news editor, newscaster, newsman, newsmonger, newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newswriter, notifier, official spokesman, own correspondent, paragrapher, paragraphist, photojournalist, press, pressman, prolocutor, prolocutress, prolocutrix, public relations officer, publicist, publisher, quidnunc, radio, rapporteur, reader, reviser, rewrite man, rewriter, rumormonger, scandalmonger, slotman, sob sister, source, speaker, special correspondent, spokesman, spokeswoman, sports editor, stringer, subeditor, tabby, talebearer, taleteller, tattler, tattletale, television, teller, telltale, tipster, tittle-tattler, tout, voice, war correspondent, witness, yenta
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
REPORTER, noun 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
 |
Definitions retrieved from local copies of the freely distributed DICT client/server software and databases. Click here for database copyright information. - KM |