Judge our new top-ranking correspondent (10)
I believe the answer is:
journalist
'correspondent' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'judge our new top-ranking' is the wordplay.
'judge' becomes 'J' (abbreviation for judge).
'new' becomes 'n' (common abbreviation eg NT for New Testament).
'top ranking' becomes 'alist' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'j'+'our'+'n'+'alist'='JOURNALIST'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for journalist that I've seen before include "Newspaperman" , "Newspaper 16 dn" , "Writer" , "Hack" , "Correspondent" .)