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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With a hot war raging in Ukraine, these journalists don’t want to ask for anyone’s sympathy, which in turn heightens their alienation and frustration.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2026
The owner of the files caught Krebs’ attention after showing the journalist a scan of his Virginia drivers license, strongly supporting the leak’s validity.

— Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of journalist

Noun

Fancying himself the next Damon Runyon, Kennedy got a job after college as a sportswriter for the Glens Falls Post-Star, some fifty miles north of Albany.

— Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 1 Sep. 2026
Legendary Chicago Tribune columnist Ring Lardner, who was the first sportswriter to be inducted into the Pro Baseball Hall of Fame, was on hand when the Sox swept the A’s to run their winning streak to nine games.

— Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of sportswriter

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Kingsolver, Everett and Kraus, all Pulitzer-winning novelists, will be making appearances, along with composer Gabriela Frank and photojournalist Jon Cherry among others.

— ABC News, ABC News, 20 Aug. 2026
Yohanna and his wife, photojournalist Danielle Villasana, are now living in Texas with their family.

— Durrie Bouscaren, NPR, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of photojournalist

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Turning Point Action wants at least one staffer in each of Iowa’s 99 counties to mobilize the conservative grassroots.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 Sep. 2026
Or, as former Eagles analytics staffer Ryan Paganetti explained on social media yesterday, the video boards in front of kickers.

— Jacob Robinson, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of staffer

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The discord meant the program spent much of the summer hiring replacement correspondents, including Ross Douthat, a conservative New York Times opinion writer with no experience as a TV journalist.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026
Not settlement outages or correspondent failures, but fields.

— Ran Grushkowsky, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of correspondent

Noun

Several anti-Flock websites and muckrakers used open records laws to collect and publish hundreds of police agencies’ audit logs – internal records detailing each time an officer searched Flock for a specific tag.

— Kenny Jacoby, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026
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

Definition of muckraker

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The Rams quickly took the lead for good on third-stringer Simpson's 11-yard TD pass to fourth-string receiver Brennan Presley for a 10-7 lead.

— CBS News, CBS News, 28 Aug. 2026
Jacob Rizy, a center from Staples, is taking on a larger role with the Patriots ahead of the season after second-stringer Ben Brown went down in the preseason opener.

— Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 23 Aug. 2026

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