reporter
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 →
2) A person who reports or tells about something, for example in a class group. tree →
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 →
- The reporter asked the firefighter how the fire started. tree →
- In group work, Amelia was our reporter. tree →
- The sports reporter wrote about the final. tree →
- Reporters waited outside the court for the verdict. tree →
- A good reporter checks facts before writing the story. tree →
- I want to be a reporter for the school newspaper. tree →
- And the reporters giggled, and each dropped a blot of ink on the floor. tree →
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.
- Sudan is dangerous and hard for reporters to reach, which is one reason it gets less news time.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «reporter» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.