REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.

"More dear than all my bosom knows, O thou Whose 'lips are sealed' and will not disavow!" So sang the blithe reporter-man as grew Beneath his hand the leg-long "interview." Barson Maith

Source: THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)
 

Reporter \Re*port"er\ (-[~e]r), n. One who reports. Specifically:
   (a) An officer or person who makes authorized statements of law proceedings and decisions, or of legislative debates.
   (b) One who reports speeches, the proceedings of public meetings, news, etc., for the newspapers. [1913 Webster]

Of our tales judge and reportour. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

102 Moby Thesaurus words for "reporter": a tale-bearing animal, adviser, anchorman, announcer, annunciator, authority, broadcaster, busybody, cameraman, channel, city editor, columnist, commentator, communicant, communicator, copy chief, copy editor, copyman, copyreader, correspondent, cub reporter, diaskeuast, editor, editorial writer, enlightener, expert witness, feature editor, foreign correspondent, gazetteer, gossip, gossip columnist, gossiper, gossipmonger, grapevine, herald, informant, information center, information medium, informer, interviewee, interviewer, journalist, leader writer, leg man, managing editor, monitor, mouthpiece, news editor, newscaster, newsman, newsmonger, newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newswriter, notifier, official spokesman, own correspondent, paragrapher, paragraphist, photojournalist, press, pressman, prolocutor, prolocutress, prolocutrix, public relations officer, publicist, publisher, quidnunc, radio, rapporteur, reader, reviser, rewrite man, rewriter, rumormonger, scandalmonger, slotman, sob sister, source, speaker, special correspondent, spokesman, spokeswoman, sports editor, stringer, subeditor, tabby, talebearer, taleteller, tattler, tattletale, television, teller, telltale, tipster, tittle-tattler, tout, voice, war correspondent, witness, yenta

Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
 

reporter

Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
 

Reporter \Re*port"er\ (-[~e]r), n. One who reports. Specifically:
   (a) An officer or person who makes authorized statements of law proceedings and decisions, or of legislative debates.
   (b) One who reports speeches, the proceedings of public meetings, news, etc., for the newspapers.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)