Thesaurus results for STAFFER

staffer

noun

Definition of staffer

as in reporter

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Recent Examples of staffer She's been described as a loyal staffer, particularly in the presidents' efforts to overhaul the childhood vaccine schedule, according to a former senior administration official. — ABC News, 24 Sep. 2026 As a staffer, however, Mills kept his own views about the process largely to himself. — Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 24 Sep. 2026 The past Project Runway staffer also spoke in court Wednesday. — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2026 But what a revelation trying former staffer Kendra Vaculin’s Gnocchi-Leek Soup With Greens still was. — Nina Moskowitz, Bon Appetit Magazine, 17 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for staffer

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Noun

The Athletic, which eliminated its Sox beat writer position a few years ago, had three reporters at Game 3.

— Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 9 Oct. 2026
Local sports reporter Eric Bailey shared a video from the concert.

— Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of reporter

Noun

Both candidates wove personal attacks and affordability points into questions that a panel of journalists from across the state asked on a variety of topics.

— Anna Giaritelli, The Washington Examiner, 9 Oct. 2026
Breaking through this boredom — especially when hosting influencers and journalists who have so often been there and done that — is perhaps easier said than done.

— Noor Lobad, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of journalist

Noun

There was Sylvester Stallone, DJ Khaled, and Ashley Graham as well as VF special correspondent Derek Blasberg and OpenAI’s vice president of partnerships Charles Porch.

— Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 2 Oct. 2026
As a determined floor correspondent at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, he was knocked down on camera by security guards while trying to interview a Georgia delegate whom the guards were removing from the convention floor.

— Walter Podrazik, The Conversation, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of correspondent

Noun

Rivera said reading Against All Hope, Cuban political prisoner Armando Valladares’ memoir, while attending FIU persuaded him to abandon plans to become a sportswriter and devote his life to political and human-rights causes.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2026
His brother, Harold Bechard, worked as a longtime sportswriter at newspapers in Salina and Hutchinson.

— Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of sportswriter

Noun

More to Read Christina House is a staff photojournalist with the Los Angeles Times.

— Leigh-Ann Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026
While covering the accident live from above, NBC’s NewsChopper4 went down between two commercial buildings nearby, killing one pedestrian, helicopter pilot George Marciniw, and aerial photojournalist Eliana Moreno.

— Anusha Praturu, Vulture, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of photojournalist

Noun

Washington was already without starter Jayden Daniels, who had been ruled out Friday because of an elbow injury, so third-stringer Athan Kaliakmanis was called into action.

— ABC News, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2026
However, Bagent is expected to serve as the backup to third-stringer Case Keenum, who will start, according to multiple reports.

— Tom Ignudo, CBS News, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of stringer

Noun

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

Noun

Once, when his unit came under heavy fire, a soldier running for cover caught a glimpse of Salinger hunched under a table, clacking away like a frenzied newsman on deadline.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Aug. 2026
Candidates like actress Mayim Bialik, newsman Anderson Cooper, and Reading Rainbow star LeVar Burton.

— Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 13 July 2026

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