Correspondent vs. Stringer — What's the Difference?

A correspondent or on-the-scene reporter is usually a journalist or commentator for a magazine, or an agent who contributes reports to a newspaper, or radio or television news, or another type of company, from a remote, often distant, location. A foreign correspondent is stationed in a foreign country.

One that strings

One who communicates by means of letters, emails, or other forms of written messages.

A long heavy horizontal timber used as a support or connector.

One employed by the print or broadcast media to supply news stories or articles

A stringboard.

One that has regular business dealings with another, especially at a distance.

(Sports) A member of a specified string or squad on a team. Often used in combination

Something that corresponds; a correlative.

A part-time or freelance correspondent for the news media.

Corresponding.

Someone who threads something; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows.

Corresponding; suitable; adapted; congruous.

Someone who strings someone along.

(with to or with) Conforming; obedient.

A horizontal timber that supports upright posts, or supports the hull of a vessel.

Someone who or something which corresponds.

The side rail supporting the rungs of a ladder or the steps of a flight of stairs.

Someone who communicates with another person, or a publication, by writing.

A small screw-hook to which piano strings are sometimes attached.

A journalist who sends reports back to a newspaper or radio or television station from a distant or overseas location.

(journalism) A freelance correspondent not on the regular newspaper staff, especially one retained on a part-time basis to report on events in a particular place.

Suitable; adapted; fit; corresponding; congruous; conformable; in accord or agreement; obedient; willing.

(sports) A person who plays on a particular string.

One with whom intercourse is carried on by letter.

(surfing) Wooden strip running lengthwise down the centre of a surfboard, for strength.

One who communicates information, etc., by letter or telegram to a newspaper or periodical.

A hard-hit ball.

One who carries on commercial intercourse by letter or telegram with a person or firm at a distance.

(fishing) A cord or chain, sometimes with additional loops, that is threaded through the mouth and gills of caught fish.

Someone who communicates by means of letters

A pallet or skid used when shipping less than truckload (LTL) freight. A platform typically constructed of timber or plastic designed such that freight may be stacked on top, able to be lifted by a forklift.

A journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media

(obsolete) A libertine; a wencher.

Similar or correspondent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar;

(birdwatching) A person who deliberately states that a certain bird is present when it is not; one who knowingly misleads other birders about the occurrence of a bird, especially a rarity.

One who strings; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows.

A libertine; a wencher.

A longitudinal sleeper.

A streak of planking carried round the inside of a vessel on the under side of the beams.

A long horizontal timber to connect uprights in a frame, or to support a floor or the like.

A reporter or correspondent who works for a news agency on a part-time basis, especially one covering local news for a newspaper published in a different area; - called also string correspondent.

A longitudinal supporting structure to reinforce the skin of an airplane fuselage.

A member of a squad on a team;

A worker who strings;

Brace consisting of a longitudinal member to strengthen a fuselage or hull

A long horizontal timber to connect uprights