POLICE REPORTER Synonyms: 28 Similar Words

police reporter

noun

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as in journalist

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Recent Examples of police reporter His research experience as a sociologist had led him to the pioneering photographs of Jacob Riis, a police reporter for the New York Tribune. — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2025 An El Paso police reporter got through to Nuzum and published a story about the arrest. — Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 19 Apr. 2025 Feinstein joined the Post in 1977 as a night police reporter but soon found his groove in the sports department. — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 13 Mar. 2025 After graduating from Duke University in 1977, Feinstein joined the Post as a night police reporter that year, covered courts and politics, too, before joining the sports department. — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for police reporter

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Noun

The essay convinced me that Woodward stopped being a journalist after his great work with Carl Bernstein during the Watergate fiasco.

— Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 29 Oct. 2026
That would be Linda Godfrey, the Janesville, Wisconsin, journalist and cryptozoologist (the study of improbable animals) who died at 71 in 2022.

— Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of journalist

Noun

But he will mostly be remembered for his profanity-laden rant aimed at a sportswriter in the media room after Game 2 of the ALDS — a White Sox win, by the way.

— Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 13 Oct. 2026
Peter O’Malley, the Dodgers’ president at the time, made the sudden and strange choice to replace Campanis with Claire, the team’s public relations boss who had spent the first 11 years of his career as a sportswriter.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026

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American freelance photojournalist Heidi Levine is treated after being attacked by Israeli settlers on October 16, 2026.

— Reuters, NBC news, 19 Oct. 2026
Hutton is a Zelig-like figure who was acquainted with all sorts of 1950s icons as a teenager, including legendary photojournalist Earl Leaf, who served as an early mentor.

— Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of photojournalist

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When the casting was announced, a reporter suggested to Roddenberry that by the 24th century, in a time of faster-than-light starships, surely humankind would have found a cure for male pattern baldness, no?

— Jordan Hoffman, Vanity Fair, 29 Oct. 2026
Reid will serve as the news outlet’s chief White House reporter, the latest addition to MS NOW’s journalistic ranks since its split from Comcast nearly a year ago.

— Ted Johnson, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of reporter

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Wu plays Katie Buranek, a war correspondent for the fictional Voltstreem News.

— Erin Wisti, Footwear News, 24 Oct. 2026
Illustration by Jeffrey Smith On June 4, 1952, Ernest Hemingway stood at his typewriter at Finca Vigía, his home outside Havana, and wrote to one of his favorite correspondents, Harvey Breit, of the Times Book Review.

— Stephen Bates, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2026

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And Britain itself, after the financial and cultural boom of the ’90s, has in the post-recession era settled into its new role as butler to the world, to borrow a phrase from writer and money-laundering muckraker Oliver Bullough.

— Eliza Goodpasture, ARTnews.com, 5 Oct. 2026
Several anti-Flock websites and muckrakers used open records laws to collect and publish hundreds of police agencies’ audit logs – internal records detailing each time an officer searched Flock for a specific tag.

— Kenny Jacoby, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of muckraker

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