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newswoman

American  
[nooz-woom-uhn, nyooz-] / ˈnuzˌwʊm ən, ˈnjuz- /

noun

  • newswomen
    plural
  1. a woman employed to gather news, as for a newspaper, magazine, or radio or television news bureau.

  2. a woman who reports the news on radio or television.

  3. a woman who sells or distributes newspapers, periodicals, etc.


newswoman British  
/ ˈnjuːzˌwʊmən /

noun

  1. Gender-neutral forms: newsreader.   reporterinformal a female newsreader or reporter

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Gender

See -woman.

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

Etymology

Origin of newswoman

First recorded in 1925–30; news + -woman

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A bachelor for much of his life, Greenspan dated newswoman Barbara Walters in the 1970s.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 22, 2026

Still, Greene praised Stahl, a veteran 81-year-old newswoman, in a Twitter post on Saturday.

From Seattle Times Apr. 2, 2023

For instance, when the newswoman did her sign protest, Novaya Gazeta had to blur out her poster.

From Slate Mar. 16, 2022

She was inspired to work in television news, she said, by Mary Richards, the Minneapolis newswoman of the sitcom “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.”

From Washington Post Aug. 19, 2020

“What is your name?” the newswoman asked, holding the mike close to his face.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

During a commercial break, a throng of TV newswomen she had paved the way for — including Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric, Robin Roberts and Connie Chung — posed with her for a group portrait.

From Seattle Times Dec. 30, 2022

Brown was one of a cadre of top newswomen who commented for ABC during the wedding of Prince William to Kate Middleton in 2011.

From New York Times Apr. 22, 2022

Was your “Weekend Update” persona based on real newswomen?

From The New Yorker Feb. 17, 2019

He did it to a federal judge, he did it to newsmen and to newswomen.

From Washington Post Oct. 25, 2018

The group includes Pauley and other trailblazing newswomen such as Diane Sawyer, Lynn Sherr and the late Jessica Savitch.

From Los Angeles Times May 25, 2018

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