a person whose job is to discover facts about news events and tell the public about them in newspapers, on television, on radio, or online
The reporter interviewed eyewitnesses at the scene of the accident.
After writing her article, the reporter rushed to meet the newspaper's deadline.
✦ from the verb “report” + “-er,” first used in the sense of a news gatherer in the early 1800s
a person whose job is to record every word spoken in a court or other formal meeting, usually using a special machine, so that an exact written record exists
The court reporter typed every word the witness said.
The judge asked the reporter to read back the defendant's last statement.
✦ extension of sense ‘one who reports’ to the legal context in the mid-1800s, when verbatim records of trials became standard
a book or set of books that regularly publishes the written decisions of a particular court or group of courts
Law students often consult the Federal Reporter to study precedent.
This case was first printed in the regional reporter in 1987.
✦ from the idea of a volume that ‘reports’ judicial opinions to the public, first appearing in English law publishing in the 16th century
