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stringer

[string-er] / ˈstrɪŋ ər /


NOUN
foreign correspondent
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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

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

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