The phrase "anchor reports" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to data analysis, project management, or reporting where a specific report serves as a reference point or foundation for further analysis or discussion.
Example: "The team will review the anchor reports to ensure all data is accurate before proceeding with the final presentation."
Alternatives: "reference reports" or "baseline reports".
DENIED REPORTS -- Mr. Blair described Ms. Gardner speaking as she was "turning swiftly in her chair to listen to an anchor report on a marine unit that had suffered heavy casualties in southern Iraq and about a group of soldiers that had been captured nearby".
And on ABC, after a female anchor reported that "Residents have been implored to leave," her male colleague interrupted: "That's putting it mildly".
(They depict such events as a go-kart crash, a Game Boy on the move and a news anchor reporting an explosion).
I understand a news anchor "reporting" from The San Francisco Bay Area does not live in the community he claims to inform.
"Some, maybe, got a little out of control," a news anchor reported as a college-aged white man swung a burning t-shirt in the air during a riot after University of Kentucky lost a NCAA Final Four basketball game to University of Wisconsin earlier this year.
Still, anchored reports will be sporadic for some time.
Even much of our news today seems to have tumbled into a fantasy land, where FOX reporters and MSNBC anchors report to us of preposterous realms built from fake facts and partisan prejudices.
A television tuned to ESPN showed two anchors reporting from the Oklahoma campus, in advance of the Sooners' game against Notre Dame.
Instead, there's a daily barrage of screaming newspaper headlines and screaming news anchors reporting on the latest allegations of corruption.
For a time, when Mr. Faber, called "The Brain" by his co-anchors, reported on Priceline.com, the hotel and airline Internet company whose advertisements feature William Shatner, the "Star Trek" theme would play.
