police reporter

noun

First recorded in 1825–35

Caroline Sweeney, the police reporter for the Pottstown Mercury, updates the page at least once a week.

I could feel everything to be just as it was—my experience as a police-reporter gave verisimilitude to the least detail.

Or, according to the police reporter, be either coward or stoic.

His berth as police-reporter meant a constantly active and unsettled existence.

Mr. Bennett now ventured to engage a cheap police reporter, which gave him more time to attend to other duties.

He was discoursing on some phase of life; and an old night police reporter listened for a moment and said, "Rats!"

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