stringer
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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
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
One sent in a stringer to nose around The Coffee Pot Cafe for a human-interest story since it was August, a slow month for news.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
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