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# reporter

noun (reporter, reporters)

«reporter» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A person whose job is to find out news and tell it in a newspaper, on television, on radio or online. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reporter/#m1)
2. A person who reports or tells about something, for example in a class group. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reporter/#m2)

### In the lessons

In media lessons: reporters interview people, check facts and write news stories; good reporters report facts, not rumours. In school: the group «reporter» tells the class what the group found. In stories: a curious reporter digs into a mystery. Phrases: «news reporter», «TV reporter», «sports reporter», «a reporter for».

### Examples

- A TV reporter came to film our school garden. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reporter/#x1)
- The reporter asked the firefighter how the fire started. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reporter/#x2)
- In group work, Amelia was our reporter. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reporter/#x3)
- The sports reporter wrote about the final. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reporter/#x4)
- Reporters waited outside the court for the verdict. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reporter/#x5)
- A good reporter checks facts before writing the story. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reporter/#x6)
- I want to be a reporter for the school newspaper. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reporter/#x7)
- And the reporters giggled, and each dropped a blot of ink on the floor. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reporter/#x8)

### Note

Countable: a reporter, reporters. Related: «report» (the story or the verb), «journalist» (a more general word). A reporter does not decide the news; he or she tells about it.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «reporter» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reporter/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«reporter» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/reporter.html) on Mova free.