reporter

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Pronunciation

• (America) IPA: /ɹɪˈpɔɹtɚ/
• (RP) IPA: /ɹɪˈpɔːtə/
• (rhotic, horse-hoarse) IPA: /ɹɪˈpo(ː)ɹtɚ/
• (nonrhotic, horse-hoarse) IPA: /ɹɪˈpoətə/

Noun

reporter (plural reporters)

1. Someone or something that reports.

   The reporters of important security bugs may be paid a bounty by the software developer.

2. A journalist who investigates, edits and reports news stories for newspapers, radio and television.
3. A person who records and issues official reports of judicial or legislative proceedings.
4. (legal) A case reporter; a bound volume of printed legal opinions from a particular jurisdiction.
5. (biology) A gene attached by a researcher to a regulatory sequence of another gene of interest, typically used as an indication of whether a certain gene has been taken up by or expressed in the cell or organism population.

Translations

• French: reporter, rapporteur, journaliste
• German: Reporter, Reporterin
• Italian: giornalista, inviato, corrispondente
• Portuguese: repórter, jornalista
• Russian: репортёр
• Spanish: reportero

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