stringer
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“Make it staff,” Faas said—meaning a member of AP, not a lowly stringer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025
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
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
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
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
