stringer
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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
Dominoes fall quickly and hard for 33-year-old budding reporter Sara Byrne, assigned as a freelance stringer by the fictional London Tribune to cover the 2012 Gaza War.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 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
The findings by the Pentagon's inspector general said US officials in Washington DC and Europe had failed to properly account for thousands of weapons, including stringer launchers and air defence missiles.
From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2024
Since I only had one perch for her, I picked the smallest pie and dropped the fish off the stringer into a big basin.
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
The division has 22 full-time employees and approximately 60 contract workers and stringers.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2023
How the tally is counted includes tons of preparation, journalists in all 50 states and a network of roughly 4,000 stringers, or temporary freelancers.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2022
The honeysuckle vines emerged in long stringers, unwoven from the mass.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
