commentator

noun7

1. •
   A person who makes a commentary.
2. •
   A person who provides analysis or opinion on current events, especially for a mass media audience.

   • Specifically, and unforgivably, she restarted the Heathrow Third Runway bandwagon, which had been stalled for more than a decade and even declared dead by most commentators. — 2025
3. •
   A person who provides an instantaneous description of a public event, particularly a sporting event, for a mass media audience.

   • He was a commentator for football two years before retiring.
4. •
   A person who compiles explanations and critical notes on a text.
5. •
   A person who compiles explanations of the law, particularly (historical) comparatively innovative European jurists in the 14th century, as opposed to earlier glossators.

   • It would be well into the fourteenth century before the commentators came into their own. — 2009
6. •
   A person who compiles explanations of biblical passages.
7. •
   (no longer used, rare) Synonym of historian or chronicler, a person who compiles an annotated history.