stringer
/ˈstrɪŋər/ noun [C]Definition
› COMMUNICATIONS someone who sends reports or does interviews for a newspaper, but who is not an employee of that newspaper: In addition to a worldwide network of stringers, the paper has about 20 staff correspondents abroad.
(Definition of stringer noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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