stringer

Example Sentences

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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

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

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 keepers he put on a stringer, a woven cord with a three-inch nail tied to its end, anchored with a rock on the riverside.

From "Mississippi Trial, 1955" by Chris Crowe