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
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
Besides working at the foundry, he was a young stringer for the Atlanta Constitution Tri-Weekly.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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