reporters

News-gathering professionals

Reporters are journalists who gather and report news.

The term covers anyone whose job is to investigate events and communicate findings to the public—newspaper reporters, television reporters, court reporters who transcribe proceedings.

Reporters gathered outside the courthouse.

A reporter may also be a person who reports something in a general sense: The study relied on self-reporters.

journalism

byline

Article author identification

story · article · lede · newsroom · deadline · editor · columnist · beat · source · interview

foreign

bureau

Office or furniture chest

dispatch · stringer · overseas · conflict · frontline · translator · fixer · dangerous · passport · visa

broadcast

anchor

Secures ships to seabed

camera · microphone · on-air · newscast · field · studio · broadcast · footage · soundbite · update

investigation

expose

Make known publicly

dig · research · whistleblower · leak · documents · anonymous · deep throat · off-the-record · follow-up · trail

press

briefing

Concise information session

  • conferenceOrganized meeting for discussion
  • corpsMilitary unit or group
  • poolCollective fund or basin

credentials · access · spokesperson · statement · release · gallery · room · freedom · censorship · blackout

Categories
Opposites
information flow role

reportersaudience

Gathered viewers collectively

readers · subjects · newsmakers · interviewees · viewers

editorial hierarchy

reporterseditors

Content revisers and correctors

publishers · editors-in-chief · managing editors · proprietors · copy editors

transparency and disclosure

reporterscensors

Those who suppress content

propagandists · spin doctors · suppressors · obfuscators · redactors

Phrases
Family

reporter, reported, unreported, reportedly, reporter's, misreported, underreported

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