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Editor vs Reporter - What's the difference?

editor | reporter |

As nouns the difference between editor and reporter

is that editor is a person who edits or makes changes to documents while reporter is agent noun of report; someone or something that reports.

editor

English

Alternative forms

* (abbreviations) * (titular abbreviation) * (qualifier)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who edits or makes changes to documents.
  • A copy editor.
  • A person who edited a specific document.
  • * John Johnson wrote this term paper and the editor was Joan Johnson.
  • A person at a newspaper or similar institution who edits stories and decides which ones to publish.
  • * John is the city editor at the ''Daily Times''.
  • A machine used for editing (cutting and splicing) movie film
  • (computer software) A program for creating]] and [[make, making changes to files, especially text files.
  • * The TPU EVE editor''' is an excellent, extensible, programmable '''editor .
  • (television, cinematography) Someone who manipulates video footage and assembles it into the correct order etc for broadcast; a picture editor.
  • Derived terms

    * copy editor * flatbed editor * editorial * editorializing * * editor-in-chief * edit

    Anagrams

    * * * *

    References

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    reporter

    English

    Alternative forms

    * reportor (obsolete) * reportour (obsolete)

    Noun

    (wikipedia reporter) (en noun)
  • Agent noun of report; someone or something that reports.
  • A journalist who investigates, edits and reports news stories for newspapers, radio and television.
  • A person who records and issues official reports of judicial or legislative proceedings.
  • (legal) A case reporter; a bound volume of printed legal opinions from a particular jurisdiction.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * case reporter * court reporter * cub reporter * law reporter * police reporter