How to Use police reporter in a Sentence

police reporter

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  • Harbsmeier became a police reporter, working the crime beat for about two decades.
    — Ayana Archie, The Courier-Journal, 5 Dec. 2021
  • The mother had to leave the event early for work, and her husband, a local police reporter in his early 30s, planned to stay behind.
    — Samantha Schmidt, chicagotribune.com, 20 Dec. 2017
  • The value of the items totaled nearly $40, according to a police reporter.
    — Bruce Geiselman, cleveland, 20 Aug. 2022
  • Delaney is known for work both in the local newspaper and broadcast business, and had been in the business since the 1960s as a police reporter for the Cincinnati Post.
    — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 22 June 2023
  • Jim Romenesko was a police reporter for the Milwaukee Journal in the late 1970s when German was an intern at the newspaper.
    — Ricardo Torres, Journal Sentinel, 5 Sep. 2022
  • The most glaring and long-running issue in my view as a former Chicago police reporter may be the city’s low clearance rate, meaning crimes that have led to at least one arrest.
    — Clarence Page, chicagotribune.com, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Before joining the News as a police reporter in 1966, Clements was a San Antonio police officer.
    — John MacCormack, ExpressNews.com, 20 Apr. 2020
  • Within five years of studying Japanese, Adelstein took the Yomiuri Shimbun exam to become a police reporter.
    — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Barnhart taught elementary school for a short time but was attracted to journalism and in 1970 began working as a police reporter for the old City News Bureau of Chicago wire service.
    — Bob Goldsborough, chicagotribune.com, 12 July 2021
  • Riis was familiar with these neighborhoods not just from his work as a police reporter for the Tribune and Evening Sun but also from his own experience in his early 20s as a struggling Danish immigrant.
    — Katya Cengel, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 June 2021
  • Allem worked as a night police reporter for a newspaper and a film courier for space launch photographers at Cape Canaveral, and also began volunteering in political campaigns.
    — Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2020
  • Dedera began working for the Republic as an obituary writer, night police reporter and general assignment reporter in 1951 and was named a features columnist two years later.
    — John D'anna, azcentral, 3 Mar. 2020
  • Two weeks later, the tortured and decapitated body of Notiver’s police reporter was discovered.
    — Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2020

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