news informer

基本解释

But if you prefer posting links to news websites, love interacting with friends and have a cult following you're an informer.
但是，如果你更愿意在社交网站上贴一些新闻网站的链接，喜欢跟朋友们互动交流，而且还拥有一个追随你的小团体，那么你就是个informer（信息分享者）。
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With the background of the marketized and industrialized media, news informer is the produce of the phenomenon that media competition manifests the importance of the information sources.
新闻线人是媒介市场化、产业化背景下媒体竞争凸显信源重要的产物。
In the late 1990s, the news hotline for collecting news with payment appeared in the city newspapers, which gave an accelerative birth to the news informer who later stretches to other media.
“新闻线人”是近年来媒体激烈竞争的产物，是指向新闻媒体提供有效新闻线索并获得相应报酬的人，它的出现表明新闻信息有价，并催生了“支票新闻”。