Dedicate victory, heading off to meet reporter (8)
I believe the answer is:
inscribe
'dedicate' is the definition.
(I know that inscribe is a kind of dedicate)
'victory heading off to meet reporter' is the wordplay.
'victory' becomes 'win' (a win is a victory).
'heading off' means to remove the first letter.
'to meet reporter' becomes 'scribe' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'win' with its initial letter taken away is 'in'.
'in'+'scribe'='INSCRIBE'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for inscribe that I've seen before include "Engrave; dedicate" , "Write a dedication to someone in (a book)" , "Write, engrave, or print as a lasting record" , "Write upon, formally perhaps" , "Engrave or write upon" .)