記者
きしゃ · kisha · JLPT N3 · noun
reporter
🎤📰 記者 = record + person: the one who writes the news down
記 means to record or write down, as in 日記 (diary). 者 means person, as in 学者 (scholar). So a 記者 is a person who records events: a reporter. Note that 汽車 (steam train) is also read kisha.
者 — old/elder 耂 + say 曰
Originally depicted sugarcane or a similar plant, but the form was reanalyzed as 耂 (old) over 曰 (say). It became a grammatical suffix meaning 'one who…' or 'the…thing,' nominalizing verbs and adjectives. Today 者 mainly marks agents or categories, as in 学者 'scholar' or 记者 'reporter.'