stringer

Example Sentences

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She started her career as a stringer for the Chicago Tribune, covering local government in the city’s northern suburbs during the 2009 recession.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 2026

Quillin, meanwhile, is a stringer for news services and often goes to the scenes of breaking news to record video.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 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

She moved to Jerusalem in 1966, at age 20, and lived there through two wars and one peace treaty, working as a journalist for The Jerusalem Post and as a stringer for Time magazine.

From New York Times • May 7, 2024

Besides working at the foundry, he was a young stringer for the Atlanta Constitution Tri-Weekly.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns