interviewer
noun
in·ter·view·er
ˈin-tər-ˌvyü-ər 
plural interviewers
: a person who conducts an interview : one (such as a journalist or prospective employer) who obtains information from another by asking a series of questions
"I never thought I would live to see this day," John Lewis, King's former Selma ally, tells an NPR interviewer on the afternoon of my arrival.—
Dave Gardetta
Dave GardettaThe meeting with the interviewer had lasted 10 minutes. The man did not even open a folder in front of him to study Mr. Rucker's résumé.—Michael Luo
Michael LuoThe next evening, a Libyan state-TV crew came to film us. The segment, in which an interviewer asked us to describe the rebels—I said "happy," Manu said "stoned," and Jim said "ill-equipped"—never aired, probably because our black eyes and bruises wouldn't have played well.—Clare Morgana Gillis
Clare Morgana Gillis
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In addition, interviewers attempted calls to telephone numbers that were matched to sampled addresses.
—Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2023
As a retired pro rugby player, Zara Tindall’s husband was an ideal interviewer for the royal roundtable!
—Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 12 Sep. 2023
Preliminary findings alleged Nielsen, for nearly two years, discriminated against Asian, Black, multiracial and white people who applied to research interviewer and bilingual research interviewer positions at its Dallas facility, the news release said.
—Isabella Volmert, Dallas News, 12 Sep. 2023
On the podcasts, Goebel is a sharp and knowledgeable interviewer.
—Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 11 Sep. 2023
One of the reasons Vogt’s final interview is so striking, and so profound, is the interviewer: Zsolt Bognár’s questions are always sensitively posed but bracingly, almost uncomfortably direct—they’d be too personal for someone whose clock wasn’t so audibly ticking.
—Max Norman, The New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2023
In 2010, a CNN interviewer asked Mr. Wurzelbacher what his strange political trajectory had been like.
—Emily Langer, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2023
Two years later, Short was on the Today show, and his interviewer, Kathie Lee Gifford, did not know that his wife had died.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 11 Sep. 2023
The chat heated up when the interviewer asked if Ethan would rather see RihRih or Lady Gaga in concert.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 6 Sep. 2023
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Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2023
As a retired pro rugby player, Zara Tindall’s husband was an ideal interviewer for the royal roundtable!
—Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 12 Sep. 2023
Preliminary findings alleged Nielsen, for nearly two years, discriminated against Asian, Black, multiracial and white people who applied to research interviewer and bilingual research interviewer positions at its Dallas facility, the news release said.
—Isabella Volmert, Dallas News, 12 Sep. 2023
On the podcasts, Goebel is a sharp and knowledgeable interviewer.
—Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 11 Sep. 2023
One of the reasons Vogt’s final interview is so striking, and so profound, is the interviewer: Zsolt Bognár’s questions are always sensitively posed but bracingly, almost uncomfortably direct—they’d be too personal for someone whose clock wasn’t so audibly ticking.
—Max Norman, The New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2023
In 2010, a CNN interviewer asked Mr. Wurzelbacher what his strange political trajectory had been like.
—Emily Langer, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2023
Two years later, Short was on the Today show, and his interviewer, Kathie Lee Gifford, did not know that his wife had died.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 11 Sep. 2023
The chat heated up when the interviewer asked if Ethan would rather see RihRih or Lady Gaga in concert.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 6 Sep. 2023
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First Known Use
1868, in the meaning defined above
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