interviewer

noun

in·​ter·​view·​er ˈin-tər-ˌvyü-ər 

plural interviewers

: a person who conducts an interview : one (such as a journalist or prospective employer) who obtains information from another by asking a series of questions

"I never thought I would live to see this day," John Lewis, King's former Selma ally, tells an NPR interviewer on the afternoon of my arrival.

—Dave Gardetta

The meeting with the interviewer had lasted 10 minutes. The man did not even open a folder in front of him to study Mr. Rucker's résumé.

—Michael Luo

The next evening, a Libyan state-TV crew came to film us. The segment, in which an interviewer asked us to describe the rebels—I said "happy," Manu said "stoned," and Jim said "ill-equipped"—never aired, probably because our black eyes and bruises wouldn't have played well.

—Clare Morgana Gillis

Synonyms

• canvasser
• canvaser
• poller
• pollster

Examples of interviewer in a Sentence

had no time for an interviewer who wanted to ask me about my phone service

Recent Examples on the Web

What other interviewer can claim to have brought half of Hollywood to tears with their talk show? —Alex Apatoff, People.com, 9 Dec. 2024

The multiple layers of flashbacks are interwoven with scenes of the interview—of Leo’s fraught interactions with his three former students, and with his health aide, Rene (Caroline Dhavernas), and the interviewers’ assistant, Sloane (Penelope Mitchell). —Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2024

During a post-screening Q&A, an interviewer made the mistake of asking Cline who shot what. —Daniel Eagan, IndieWire, 20 Nov. 2024

At issue was an anti-gay phrase Ball used when answering a sideline interviewer’s question about defending the last shot against Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo in Charlotte’s 115-114 win over the Bucks on Saturday. —Reuters, NBC News, 18 Nov. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1868, in the meaning defined above