POLICE REPORTER Synonyms: 28 Similar Words

police reporter

noun

Definition of police reporter

as in journalist

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Recent Examples of police reporter His research experience as a sociologist had led him to the pioneering photographs of Jacob Riis, a police reporter for the New York Tribune. — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2025 An El Paso police reporter got through to Nuzum and published a story about the arrest. — Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 19 Apr. 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 See All Example Sentences for police reporter

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Noun

The president also frequently recounts that hordes of women, including journalists, Cabinet members and administration officials, used to complain to him about their high heels getting stuck in the mud in the old, grassy Rose Garden.

— ABC News, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2026
Jen Kirby is a freelance journalist currently based in Rome, Italy.

— Big Think, Big Think, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of journalist

Noun

Longtime Philadelphia Daily News sportswriter Dick Jerardi once likened the process to a basketball Ponzi scheme.

— Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 24 July 2026
In December a sportswriter published a column with an outright accusation of fixing the championship.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 July 2026

Definition of sportswriter

Noun

Witnesses said the men tried siccing a German shepherd on CBS News Chicago's photojournalist while yelling racial slurs, but the dog did not obey the command.

— Todd Feurer, CBS News, 31 July 2026
Staff photojournalist Luke Johnson contributed to this report.

— Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 July 2026

Definition of photojournalist

Noun

And for broadcast leaders, please keep investing in reporters and tools to serve the traveling public.

— Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 9 Aug. 2026
The political reporter, who has worked in news settings since high school, says he’s seen the industry evolve and struggle to preserve relevancy in some ways.

— Janey Wetzel, PEOPLE, 9 Aug. 2026

Definition of reporter

Noun

Or the convention center in Christchurch that became carbon zero because one young staffer started auditing the trash bins.

— Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
Gardner-Johnson also streamed himself donating $20,000 from his foundation to help a Bills staffer pay her student-loan debt.

— Tim Graham, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of staffer

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Carboy did find the Harding memo in the archives of the late Village Voice muckraker Wayne Barrett, but the city has never produced it.

— New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 13 July 2026
Eric Bogosian’s leather jacket-wearing muckraker is still asking questions in season three of Interview With the Vampire, and the AMC series has been renamed in honor of Molloy’s latest subject.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 23 June 2026

Definition of muckraker

Noun

Then again, Dalton is an accomplished backup who hasn’t been a third-stringer.

— Zach Berman, New York Times, 28 July 2026
In Indonesia, a stringer walks through a village, or at least what was once a village before the mud flowed down from a forest and swept the village along with it.

— Wyatt Williams, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026

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