Correspondent

[kawr-uh-spon-duh nt, kor-] /ˌkɔr əˈspɒn dənt, ˌkɒr-/

noun
1.
a person who communicates by letters.
2.
a person employed by a news agency, periodical, television network, etc., to gather, report, or contribute news, articles, and the like regularly from a distant place.
3.
a person who contributes a letter or letters to a newspaper, magazine, etc.
4.
a person or firm that has regular business relations with another, especially at a distance.
5.
a thing that to something else.
adjective
6.
consistent, similar, or analogous; .
/ˌkɒrɪˈspɒndənt/
noun
1.
a person who communicates by letter or by letters
2.
a person employed by a newspaper, etc, to report on a special subject or to send reports from a foreign country
3.
a person or firm that has regular business relations with another, esp one in a different part of the country or abroad
4.
something that corresponds to another
adjective
5.
similar or analogous
adj.

early 15c., “having an analogous relationship” (to), a sense taken up since 19c. by corresponding; from Medieval Latin correspondentem, present participle of correspondere (see correspond).
n.

“one who communicates with another by letters,” 1620s, from correspondent (adj.). The newspaper sense is from 1711.

THE life of a newspaper correspondent, as may naturally be supposed, is one of alternate cloud and sunshine–one day basking in an Andalusian balcony, playing a rubber at the club on the off-nights of the Opera, being very musical when the handsome Prima Donna sings, and very light fantastic toeish when the lively Prima Ballerina dances; another day roughing it over the Balkan, amid sleet and snow, or starving at the tail of an ill-conditioned army, and receiving bullets instead of billets-doux. [“New Monthly Magazine,” vol. 95, 1852, p.284]