reporter

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Someone or something that reports.

   The reporters of important security bugs may be paid a bounty by the software developer.

2. 2
   noun

   a person who investigates and reports or edits news stories

3. 3
   noun

   A journalist who investigates, edits and reports news stories for newspapers, radio and television.

4. 4
   noun

   A person who records and issues official reports of judicial or legislative proceedings.

5. 5
   noun

   A case reporter; a bound volume of printed legal opinions from a particular jurisdiction.

6. 6
   noun

   A gene attached by a researcher to a regulatory sequence of another gene of interest, typically used as an indication of whether a certain gene has been taken up by or expressed in the cell or organism population.

Etymology

From Middle English reportour, from Old French reporteur; equivalent to report + -er.