stringer

“He’d tie that stringer around my hand and let the fish pull me around the creek.”

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

She previously covered corporate governance and financial regulation as an intern reporter at Bloomberg Law and reported on crime as a metro stringer at the New York Times.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

Video from the stringer service OnScene.TV shows a stalled pickup truck on the shoulder of the freeway with a gaping hole in the windshield.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2025

Chandrakar used to also work as a "stringer" for news organisations, where his job involved providing outstation journalists with information about a story or sometimes, even chaperoning them through Maoist strongholds.

From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2025

Though the Crepuscule was armed with but sixteen guns, the noise of their detonation was great, and as we labored to stand in the darkness, cannon blasts quaked the whole ship from strake to stringer.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

RFA laid off its stringers in Myanmar a day before a devastating March earthquake.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2025

The Associated Press also has local Palestinian stringers, and my review of its hundreds of stories on the war this year revealed a total of two deeply reported pieces on Hamas—neither datelined from Gaza.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025

AP now uses a network of thousands of stringers and vote center clerks who take feeds, scrape official state websites for data and electronically add up votes across the country.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 28, 2022

The builders of dams and stringers of wires never forget their feats of engineering.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 15, 2022

The Preacher pulled the biggest two bass and the biggest perch off the stringers and said, “This perch is ten years old, and these bass are one year old each. How many years is that?”

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis