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reporter

 [ri-pawr-ter, -pohr-]   Origin

re·port·er

   [ri-pawr-ter, -pohr-]
noun
1.
a person who reports.
2.
a person employed to gather and report news, as for a newspaper, wire service, or television station.
3.
a person who prepares official reports, as of legal or legislative proceedings.
Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English reportour < Anglo-French (Old French reporteur). See report, -er1
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reporter (rɪˈpɔːtə)
 
—n
1.  a person who reports, esp one employed to gather news for a newspaper, news agency, or broadcasting organization
2.  a person, esp a barrister, authorized to write official accounts of judicial proceedings
3.  a person authorized to report the proceedings of a legislature
4.  in Scotland social welfare an official who arranges and conducts children's panel hearings and who may investigate cases and decide on the action to be taken

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reporter
late 14c.; see report. In the newspaper sense, from 1798.
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