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
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
Whether it is providing detailed insight about an Australian Open opponent or carrying his racquets to the stringer, Andy Murray has got Novak Djokovic's back.
From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2025
As a high school junior, he signed on as a stringer, feeding varsity wrestling and hockey results to the paper’s sports department.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 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
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
But the reason they have three shutouts in lopsided victories is that the second stringers are performing as well as first stringers when coach Jon Ellinghouse clears the bench.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2025
A handful of news organizations had maintained a regular presence with bureaus there, including The Associated Press, the BBC, Reuters, Agence France-Presse and Al-Jazeera, with a network of stringers helping others.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 19, 2023
The honeysuckle vines emerged in long stringers, unwoven from the mass.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
