ghostwriter vs reporter

ghostwriter

noun
  • A professional writer who is paid to write material that is officially credited to another person; one who writes on behalf of someone else, often for a celebrity. 

  • Smith was listed as the author of his autobiography, but a ghostwriter did most of the work. 

reporter

noun
  • 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. 

  • 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. 

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

  • Someone or something that reports. 

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