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Recent Examples of police reporter
An El Paso police reporter got through to Nuzum and published a story about the arrest.
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Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 19 Apr. 2025
Goldberg started his journalism career as a police reporter for The Washington Post, eventually writing over 15 cover stories for The New York Times Magazine and then serving as a Middle East correspondent and then a Washington correspondent for The New Yorker.
—Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2025
Feinstein joined the Post in 1977 as a night police reporter but soon found his groove in the sports department.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 13 Mar. 2025
After graduating from Duke University in 1977, Feinstein joined the Post as a night police reporter that year, covered courts and politics, too, before joining the sports department.
—Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2025
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Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 19 Apr. 2025
Goldberg started his journalism career as a police reporter for The Washington Post, eventually writing over 15 cover stories for The New York Times Magazine and then serving as a Middle East correspondent and then a Washington correspondent for The New Yorker.
—Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2025
Feinstein joined the Post in 1977 as a night police reporter but soon found his groove in the sports department.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 13 Mar. 2025
After graduating from Duke University in 1977, Feinstein joined the Post as a night police reporter that year, covered courts and politics, too, before joining the sports department.
—Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for police reporter
Noun
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Ask The Post’s journalists Our reporters and editors answer your questions.—
Karen Tumulty,
Washington Post,
15 Jan. 2026
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The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
8 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Then, a few minutes later, a sportswriter from The Oregonian picked up the ball again.—
Kevin Sherrington,
Dallas Morning News,
5 Jan. 2026
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In 2025, Mike Finger of the San Antonio News-Express won the sportswriter's prize.—
Tyler J. Davis,
Austin American Statesman,
5 Jan. 2026
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Nate Sylves, a photojournalist with CBS News Philadelphia, and his wife, Liz, were scheduled to fly home on Saturday following a weeklong cruise.—
Eva Andersen,
CBS News,
3 Jan. 2026
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And a photojournalist is thrown to the floor, then carried out on a stretcher.—
Leonard Pitts Jr,
Miami Herald,
1 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Ask The Post’s journalists Our reporters and editors answer your questions.—
Karen Tumulty,
Washington Post,
15 Jan. 2026
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Cooper told reporters in the press room after his win.—
Nicholas Rice,
PEOPLE,
11 Jan. 2026
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Prosecutors accused Moore of contacting the staffer via phone calls and texts after the breakup, prompting the woman to contact the University of Michigan and cooperate in its investigation.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
7 Jan. 2026
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Moore faces criminal charges for allegedly confronting the staffer following his firing.—
Austin Meek,
New York Times,
6 Jan. 2026
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Iranian state television on Sunday morning took a page from demonstrators, having their correspondents appear on streets in several cities to show calm areas with a date stamp shown on screen.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
11 Jan. 2026
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The figures would have been difficult to interpret, anyway, because the large revisions to earlier months meant that the actually new numbers could not be cleanly isolated to show what happened in December alone, Nick Timaraos, the Wall Street Journal’s chief economics correspondent, noted.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
9 Jan. 2026
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One spring day, Tan’s critical gaze landed on the work of freelance journalist Gil Duran, a tech-industry muckraker with a background in Democratic politics who was starting to take very seriously the right-wing political ambitions of San Francisco tech moguls.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Oct. 2025
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With Jayden Daniels shut down and Marcus Mariota dealing with a leg injury, the Commanders (5-12) started Johnson, their 39-year-old third-stringer.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
4 Jan. 2026
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And now San Francisco is likely down its two starting linebackers (one of which is already a second-stringer), on top of all the team’s other season-defining injuries.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
4 Jan. 2026
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“Police reporter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/police%20reporter. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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