phoner


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phon·er

(fō′nər)
n.
1. A person who places a telephone call.
2. Informal An interview that is conducted by telephone.
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phoner

(ˈfəʊnə)
n
(Telecommunications) informal a person making a telephone call
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun 1. phoner - the person initiating a telephone call; "there were so many callers that he finally disconnected the telephone"
speaker, talker, verbaliser, verbalizer, utterer - someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous); "the speaker at commencement"; "an utterer of useful maxims"
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Everywhere else that reporters and sources do the daily pas de deux, e-mail is a tool, in the box alongside the sit-down and the phoner, convenient, quick, precise and very often essential.
The e-mail interview debate: they give more control to sources, and they can be stilted and scripted. Some journalists resort to them too easily. A number of college newspapers have banned them. But e-mail interviews remain an essential part of the mix
Phoner, although the Court did describe the domain of the Federal Rules as encompassing matters "rationally capable of classification as [procedure]," (51) the Court also said that it "need not wholly blind itself to the degree to which the Rule makes the character and result of the federal litigation stray from the course it would follow in state courts." (52) Justice Scalia referred to the latter statement as "obiter dictum"--an "unfortunate utterance" (53) that has laid dormant for decades.
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When we were starting out we insisted that broadcasters pay for even a brief phoner with a reporter; making that standard procedure required a fight.
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Our arts reporter was off sick, so it was handed to me, last minute, to do the scheduled phoner - as we call them - with DJ Chris Evans.
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Yet he seemed to genuinely enjoy taking a phoner to preview his band's show Monday at the Cuthbert as he laughed and joked his way through questions he's probably heard a thousand times.
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Instead she sounded super tired and had just done a phoner with a Japanese magazine because some business people really want to make her famous.
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"My editors said I could do a phoner. But I was drawn to the lecture."
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Either by press conference in which case they talk in front of group of assembled journalists, or by "phoner", when it is just you and the star on the other end of the line, who could be sitting a city or a continent away.
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