noun

• 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.
• (law) A case reporter; a bound volume of printed legal opinions from a particular jurisdiction.
• (biology) 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.