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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

REPORTER, n.
1. One that gives an account, verbal or written, official or unofficial.
2. An officer or person who makes statements of law proceedings and decisions, or of legislative debates.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a person who investigates and reports or edits news stories [syn: reporter, newsman, newsperson]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 14th century one that reports: as a. a person who makes authorized statements of law decisions or legislative proceedings b. a person who makes a shorthand record of a speech or proceeding c. (1) a person employed by a newspaper, magazine, or television company to gather and report news (2) a person who broadcasts news • reportorial adjective • reportorially adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a person employed to report news etc. for newspapers or broadcasts. 2 a person who reports.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Reporter Re*port"er (-[~e]r), n. One who reports. Specifically: (a) An officer or person who makes authorized statements of law proceedings and decisions, or of legislative debates. (b) One who reports speeches, the proceedings of public meetings, news, etc., for the newspapers.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(reporters) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. A reporter is someone who writes news articles or who broadcasts news reports. ...a TV reporter. ...a trainee sports reporter... N-COUNT

Moby Thesaurus

a tale-bearing animal, adviser, anchorman, announcer, annunciator, authority, broadcaster, busybody, cameraman, channel, city editor, columnist, commentator, communicant, communicator, copy chief, copy editor, copyman, copyreader, correspondent, cub reporter, diaskeuast, editor, editorial writer, enlightener, expert witness, feature editor, foreign correspondent, gazetteer, gossip, gossip columnist, gossiper, gossipmonger, grapevine, herald, informant, information center, information medium, informer, interviewee, interviewer, journalist, leader writer, leg man, managing editor, monitor, mouthpiece, news editor, newscaster, newsman, newsmonger, newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newswriter, notifier, official spokesman, own correspondent, paragrapher, paragraphist, photojournalist, press, pressman, prolocutor, prolocutress, prolocutrix, public relations officer, publicist, publisher, quidnunc, radio, rapporteur, reader, reviser, rewrite man, rewriter, rumormonger, scandalmonger, slotman, sob sister, source, speaker, special correspondent, spokesman, spokeswoman, sports editor, stringer, subeditor, tabby, talebearer, taleteller, tattler, tattletale, television, teller, telltale, tipster, tittle-tattler, tout, voice, war correspondent, witness, yenta