The phrase "independently reported" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to information or news that has been gathered and verified by a source outside of the writer's personal reporting. Example: The newspaper's article was based on independently reported facts from multiple sources, ensuring the credibility of the information presented.
Under the Taliban, all musical performances and TV were banned, as were cricket matches and independently reported news.
Similar details about casualties and hostile fire were independently reported last week by the conservative columnist Robert Novak.
Then three groups, independently, reported that they had found brown fat in adults.
Two groups of researchers, followed shortly by a third, independently reported that they could convert human skin cells into embryonic stem cells, bypassing embryos altogether.
Credit for realizing the indicator's market-timing power is shared by at least two people, who independently reported on its usefulness in the mid-1980's.
In the past weeks, two different high altitude balloon experiments studying the microwave radiation left over from the Big Bang independently reported that the universe is very close to being "flat".
Jim Rutenberg, one of two reporters who wrote the article, said he felt comfortable describing McCain's false, incomplete or misleading statements in declarative fashion because The Times had independently reported the facts and given them to readers.
About 150 Europeans have died from the variant form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, named for two German doctors, Hans G. Creutzfeldt (pronounced KROITS-felt) and Alfons Jakob (pronounced YAH-cobe), who independently reported the first cases 75 years ago.
A7 SCIENCE/HEALTH Fighting SARS in Animals American and European scientists independently reported that they had protected animals from the SARS virus by two different types of experimental immunizations.
The SmithKline Beecham researchers, one of four teams that independently reported the discovery last fall, found the gene and enzyme "pretty quickly," said Dr. Colin Dingwall, assistant director of molecular neurobiology at the company's laboratory in Harlow, England.
In a rare independently reported account of the incident, the popular Chinese magazine Caixin said that five of the suspects slashed pedestrians while the remaining three, apparently including a getaway driver, waited in a small van throughout the massacre.
