# reporter

Pronunciation: US say "ri-POR-tur" /ɹɪˈpɔɹtɚ/; UK say "ri-PAW-tuh" /ɹɪˈpɔːtə/

## Noun

1. A journalist whose job is to look into news stories, edit them, and report them in newspapers or on radio and television.
   - Simple: A person who finds out the news and shares it on TV, radio, or in newspapers.
   - _The reporter spent months investigating corruption at city hall._
   - _Broadcast reporters filed their stories minutes before the evening news._
2. A person or thing that gives an account of events or passes on information.
   - Simple: A person or thing that gives information about something that has happened.
   - _He proved a reliable reporter of everything that happened at the meeting._
   - _The sensor functions as a reporter, logging each change in pressure._
3. A person who records and issues the official reports of court hearings or legislative sessions.
   - Simple: A person whose job is to write down and publish the official record of what happens in courts or government meetings.
   - _The reporter certified the transcript before it was entered into the record._
   - _Legislative reporters compiled the official account of the day's debates._
4. A bound volume of printed legal opinions from a particular jurisdiction.
   - Simple: A book that holds printed court decisions from the courts of one area.
   - _She cited the page in the regional reporter where the decision appeared._
   - _The firm subscribed to several reporters covering federal and state courts._
5. A gene attached by a researcher to the regulatory sequence of another gene of interest, used to indicate whether that gene has been taken up or expressed in cells.
   - Simple: A gene that scientists attach to another gene so they can see if that gene is turned on.
   - _The team fused a fluorescent reporter to the promoter to track gene expression._
   - _Green fluorescent protein is a common reporter in molecular biology experiments._

## Origin

From Middle English reportour, from Old French reporteur; equivalent to "report" plus the suffix "-er".

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/reporter (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).