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# reporter

«reporter» in Mova's school dictionary: **to find out news and tell it in a newspaper, on…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (reporter, reporters)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A person whose job is to find out news and tell it in a newspaper, on television, on radio or online. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reporter/#m2)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reporter/#x1)
- The reporter asked the firefighter how the fire started. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reporter/#x2)
- In group work, Amelia was our reporter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reporter/#x3)
- The sports reporter wrote about the final. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reporter/#x4)
- Reporters waited outside the court for the verdict. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reporter/#x5)
- A good reporter checks facts before writing the story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reporter/#x6)
- I want to be a reporter for the school newspaper. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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.

### In the corpora

- [One politician said «I never said that!» — and a reporter played a recording where he did.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/442-politicians-and-promises-as-the-news-reports-them/25/)
- [Sudan is dangerous and hard for reporters to reach, which is one reason it gets less news time.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/28-the-wars-the-news-shows-less-sudan-and-others/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «reporter» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reporter/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.