reporter UK /ɹɪˈpɔː.tə/US /ɹɪˈpoɹ.tɚ/ noun5 •a person whose job is to find out about events and write or speak about them in the news •Someone or something that reports.The reporters of important security bugs may be paid a bounty by the software developer. •A person who records and issues official reports of judicial or legislative proceedings. •A gene attached by a researcher to a regulatory sequence of another gene of interest, typically used as an indication of whether a certain gene has been taken up by or expressed in the cell or organism population. •A case reporter; a bound volume of printed legal opinions from a particular jurisdiction. formsreporters