n. One who reports or gives an account.n. Specifically— One who draws up official statements of law proceedings and decisions, or of legislative debates.n. A member of the staff of a newspaper whose work is to collect and put in form for submission to the editors local information of all kinds, to give an account of the proceedings at public meetings, entertainments, etc., and, in general, to go upon any mission or quest for news, to interview persons whose names are before the public, and to obtain news for his paper in any other way that may be assigned to him by his chiefs.n. One who makes or signs a report, as of a committee.