Reporter in Malayalam

വാര്‍ത്താലേഖകന്‍ (vaarthaalegakan) is a reporter or correspondent, literally one who writes the news. It is the word in bylines and on press cards, built from the noun for news and the agent noun for a writer. Six beats, ending in the masculine suffix.

Most common translation

വാര്‍ത്താലേഖകന്‍ (vaarthaalegakan)

News reporter, correspondent.

വാര്‍ത്താലേഖകന്‍ ഉത്സവം റിപ്പോര്‍ട്ട് ചെയ്തു.

vaarthaalegakan ulsavam report cheythu.

The news reporter covered the festival.

All Malayalam words for “reporter”

പത്രലേഖകന്‍ (pathralegakan) is a newspaper journalist more broadly, taking in editors as well as reporters, so it is the wider of the two.

Common questions

How do you say reporter in Malayalam?

വാര്‍ത്താലേഖകന്‍ (vaarthaalegakan), the news reporter or correspondent.

Is there a feminine form?

Yes. Malayalam swaps the masculine agent ending for the feminine one, and the press uses that form for women reporters.