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

Tejedor is a Swiss filmmaker and journalist whose work explores utopias and the relationship between individuals and authority across the former Soviet Union and its satellite states.

— Leo Barraclough, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026
The local journalists who cover the Bend community every day were not immune from the grief and sadness after today’s deadly shooting of children at an elementary school.

— Phil Helsel, NBC news, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of journalist

Noun

But he will mostly be remembered for his profanity-laden rant aimed at a sportswriter in the media room after Game 2 of the ALDS — a White Sox win, by the way.

— Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 13 Oct. 2026
Peter O’Malley, the Dodgers’ president at the time, made the sudden and strange choice to replace Campanis with Claire, the team’s public relations boss who had spent the first 11 years of his career as a sportswriter.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of sportswriter

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This year’s honorees included American photojournalist Lynsey Addario, Malawian girls’ rights advocate Vanessa Mwangala and Kyrgyz journalists Bolot Temirov and Makhabat Tazhibek Kyzy.

— Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 10 Oct. 2026
But the show more than makes do with the photography that comes to the fore in a long gallery featuring WPA work by Berenice Abbott and the photojournalist Weegee, as well as the younger street photographer Harvey Wang.

— J. Hoberman, ARTnews.com, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of photojournalist

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The row reached the competition jury’s press conference the day after the opening ceremony, where a reporter raised the question of historical fact and creative freedom.

— Ophélie Surcouf, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026
One of my favorite quotes about Kansas City barbecue comes from a news reporter in Milwaukee.

— Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of reporter

Noun

Our staffer’s been enjoying back pocket recipes lately—with the first one inspired by Richard Olney, the Iowan painter, food writer, and Parisian ex-pat.

— Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026
In 2019, a college student at Salisbury University was charged with illegally streaming a meeting with a congressional staffer for Harris.

— Drew Aunkst, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of staffer

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Joining me for insight and analysis are NBC News Senior Washington correspondent Hallie Jackson, former Biden White House senior adviser Steve Ricchetti and Lanhee Chen, a fellow at the Hoover Institution.

— NBC news, NBC news, 18 Oct. 2026
Now, correspondent Anthony Mason reports on the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York's landmark show that rewrites the story of Krasner and Pollock, two artists whose work and legacy were – aesthetically and personally – bound together.

— David Morgan, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of correspondent

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And Britain itself, after the financial and cultural boom of the ’90s, has in the post-recession era settled into its new role as butler to the world, to borrow a phrase from writer and money-laundering muckraker Oliver Bullough.

— Eliza Goodpasture, ARTnews.com, 5 Oct. 2026
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

Definition of muckraker

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