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stringers  

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  • A stringer is a part-time or freelance journalist. Stringers typically are assigned to cover areas that are considered less newsworthy or peripheral to the news organization's coverage area, where it has no bureau or full-time reporters. [Source: Encyclopedia of Political Communication; Stringer]

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