Definition of "on-the-scene" []

• Being at the site of an action or event: an on-the-scene reporter. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "By the middle of the following century, on-the-scene data from Epsilon Eridani, the nearest known planetary system, could be in our hands."
• "Scott Glenn (the bad guy from “Urban Cowboy”) turns in a very believable performance as an on-the-scene reporter who eventually finds himself on the deck of the USS Nimitz."
• "So, then, I would have to conclude that The Wasilla Shopper has had a reporter on-the-scene in Baghdad for the past decade."