stringer

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

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

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

The man in his 50s was discovered inside his white Toyota sedan in a parking structure along Century Boulevard near LAX, according to footage broadcast by RMG News, a stringer news service.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2026

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

I loaded all my fishing tools up, threw the stringer of fish over Old Flap’s rump, and started riding back to the stable.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis

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

St. John Bosco has so many defensive backs that the second stringers could start for any team.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2022

For now it’s running with pinch hitters from the parent company, including one based in Florida, and five local stringers.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 11, 2022

The Preacher said, “True, if you figure a tenth by numbers, but I was thinking of figuring a tenth by age. Let me hold on to both of those stringers for a minute.”

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis