correspondent
UK: ˌkɒr.ɪˈspɒn.dənt | US: ˌkɔːr.əˈspɑːn.dənt
n. a person who reports news or conducts interviews for media outlets
n. someone who communicates by exchanging letters or emails
adj. matching or analogous in character or function
The word "correspondent" originates from Latin cor- (together) + respondere (to answer), reflecting the idea of mutual exchange or alignment. The suffix -ent denotes an agent (e.g., a person who performs the action). Historically, it described someone who exchanged letters ("answered together"), later evolving to mean a journalist reporting from a distant location, maintaining a "two-way" communication with their publication.
The foreign correspondent filed a report on the political crisis.
She has been a pen pal and correspondent for over a decade.
The results were correspondent with the initial hypothesis.
The newspaper hired a war correspondent to cover the conflict.
His actions were not correspondent to his promises.