Cryptic crossword clue
Press gang — note harbour with last characters in alehouse rather nervous 9

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word REPORTERS

I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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What does REPORTERS mean?

REPORTERS noun
  1. Someone or something that reports.
  2. A journalist who investigates, edits and reports news stories for newspapers, radio and television.
  3. A person who records and issues official reports of judicial or legislative proceedings.
  4. A case reporter; a bound volume of printed legal opinions from a particular jurisdiction.
  5. A gene attached by a researcher to a regulatory sequence of another gene of interest, typically used as an indication of whether a certain gene has been taken up by or expressed in the cell or organism population.

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