REPORTER

reporter, newsman, newsperson

(noun) a person who investigates and reports or edits news stories

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

reporter (plural reporters)

Someone or something that reports.

A journalist who investigates, edits and reports news stories for newspapers, radio and television.

A person who records and issues official reports of judicial or legislative proceedings.

(legal) A case reporter; a bound volume of printed legal opinions from a particular jurisdiction.

(biology) A gene attached by a researcher to a regulatory sequence of another gene of interest, typically used as an indication of whether a certain gene has been taken up by or expressed in the cell or organism population.

Anagrams

• repertor, rereport

Source: Wiktionary

Re*port"er (-r), n.

Definition: One who reports. Specifically: (a) An officer or person who makees 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition