police reporter

noun

Synonyms of police reporternext
: a reporter regularly assigned to cover police news (such as crimes and arrests)

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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 True Crime, which will help readers understand her rise from a traumatic, neglectful childhood to become an award-winning police reporter and forensic expert and eventual author. — Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 7 Jan. 2026 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 See All Example Sentences for police reporter

Word History

First Known Use

1813, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of police reporter was in 1813

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