police reporter

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Recent Examples of police reporter The hunt for the Pillowcase Rapist, which was the subject of a series of stories that led to then-Miami Herald police reporter Edna Buchanan winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1986, was cold until a DNA hit in 2020, following the arrest of Koehler’s son. Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 25 Oct. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for police reporter
Recent Examples of Synonyms for police reporter
Noun
  • The hundred or so journalists parked not far from the Port of Granadilla have watched a steady and carefully coordinated ballet as the boat transports five passengers at a time to the port that has finally agreed to take them in.
    Melissa Bell, CNN Money, 10 May 2026
  • American journalists were also imprisoned, including Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich.
    Christopher Cann, USA Today, 10 May 2026
Noun
  • Richard Dunn, a longtime sportswriter, writes the Dunn Deal column regularly for The Orange County Register’s weekly, The Coastal Current North.
    Richard Dunn, Oc Register, 7 May 2026
  • The New England Patriots quarterback shared his support for Mike Vrabel amid the coach’s photo scandal involving sportswriter Dianna Russini.
    Anna Lazarus Caplan, PEOPLE, 30 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Twenty-four years ago, Arizona photojournalist Gilbert Zermeño, who contracted hantavirus after losing both his mother and sister to the illness, says news of the recent outbreak has been hard to process.
    Kierra Frazier, CBS News, 9 May 2026
  • Tentatively, perhaps dorkily, photojournalist Mindy Schauer and I strolled into the first vape shop with a question.
    Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 8 May 2026
Noun
  • Jonathan Dienst Jonathan Dienst is chief justice contributor for NBC News and chief investigative reporter for WNBC-TV in New York.
    Tom Winter, NBC news, 7 May 2026
  • Paris Barraza is a reporter covering Los Angeles and Southern California for the USA TODAY Network.
    Paris Barraza, USA Today, 7 May 2026
Noun
  • Each month, this program, which has just one full-time staffer, serves about 2,800 people, generally students or their families.
    Graham Womack May 9, Sacbee.com, 9 May 2026
  • The firm also interviewed CEO King, a board staffer and a representative from executive search firm Alma Advisory.
    Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2026
Noun
  • Prosecutors have accused Allen, 31, of sprinting through a security checkpoint one floor above the correspondents' dinner while armed with a handgun, a shotgun and several knives.
    Sarah N. Lynch, CBS News, 8 May 2026
  • Dinah Voyles Pulver, a national correspondent for USA TODAY, writes about violent weather, climate change and other news.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 8 May 2026
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • Third-stringer Luka Garza also saw first-quarter action, with Mazzulla initially deploying Vucevic against Embiid and Garza against veteran backup Andre Drummond.
    Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Simmons did not mention Clayton Dees, who is believed to be the fourth-stringer.
    Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 11 Mar. 2026

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“Police reporter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/police%20reporter. Accessed 13 May. 2026.

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