correspondent
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- noun
- /ˌkɔːrəˈspɒndənt/
- Literature
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- I became the CNN correspondent covering Palestine and Israel.
- foreign correspondent
- correspondent reported
- war correspondent
So please welcome our very good friend, Science correspondent Emily Grassley.
- So please welcome our very good friend, Science correspondent Emily Grassley.
- That is when Paul Wood, world affairs correspondent for the BBC, wrote and I quoted him here.
- This is Jeff Goldblum, Wired correspondent.
- You know, the But in those days it was quite unusual for an American to be the correspondent in Moscow of the Financial Times.
- So the crime correspondent Steve Panther, who was well connected to certain senior officers.
- He's the White House economic correspondent, which basically means he's a dude that works for Donald Trump.
- She is a Vanity Fair special correspondent and the host Fast Politics podcast and an MSNBC contributor.
- CNN Senior international correspondent and the founder of Inara, Arwa Damon, who is sitting right there with us tonight.
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For a decade he has been the chief Washington correspondent for CNBC.
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And that was unusual for a Western correspondent to travel alone.
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In late June, an International News Service correspondent reported: #
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We go now to our White House correspondent.
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Oh, I missed out on a job as war correspondent.
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As often as not it was the science correspondent writing the story up in the newspaper reports.
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Peter Alexander, the White House correspondent for NBC News, goes to the White House.
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That is when Paul Wood, world affairs correspondent for the BBC, wrote and I quoted him here.
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Our national correspondent, Rose Caldwell, is on the scene.
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She works as a correspondent covering international news for a major network.
Synonyms
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1.1
A person who finds and tells news on TV, radio, or newspapers
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2.3
A person who reports news for a newspaper, magazine, TV, or website
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A person who reports news for newspapers, TV or websites
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A person who finds and reports news for television, radio, or newspapers
Compounds
- Literature
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5.1
A journalist who lives in another country and reports news there for newspapers or TV at home
- Literature
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A journalist who reports news from battle areas for newspapers or TV
How Senior
Surface Forms
Morphology
correspondent = correspond (semi-transparent) = correspond + ent
Built from 'correspond' + '-ent', but the journalistic sense is a specialized occupational extension (a reporter who 'corresponds' from a location), so the specific role may not be fully inferable to all learners.
Etymology
Correspondent was later used by newspapers for a person who sent regular reports from another place. The word comes from Latin cor- ('together') and respondere ('to answer') and is like the verb respond, so a news correspondent 'answers' the paper with reports from a particular place or on a particular subject.