newsman
Americannoun
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a person employed to gather news, as for a newspaper, magazine, or radio or television news bureau; reporter.
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a person who reports the news on radio or television.
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a person who sells or distributes newspapers, periodicals, etc.; newsdealer.
noun
Gender
See -man.
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Origin of newsman
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It’s an honor intended to mark America’s 250th anniversary, and it’s also an opportunity to bolster the joint British-American effort to free newsman Jimmy Lai from his Hong Kong prison cell.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
The newsman, who once held a primetime slot on CNN, raged on Wednesday about a clip posted to Instagram by the account MemeRunnerGPT.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2025
He said he did not believe the audience would be disconcerted if he appeared as a newsman on television on Sundays and a pitchman on the radio during the week.
From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2024
His noblesse oblige masked a steely newsman who stood by his publication and industry whenever they were under attack.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2023
Like any good newsman, Greeley double-checked his source by asking the spirit to also rap the corresponding number he’d written.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
Prosecuting newsmen is a delicate proposition because it implicates a constitutional right.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026
His hot streak continued with Alan J. Pakula’s 1976 drama “All the President’s Men,” in which he and Dustin Hoffman embodied Washington Post newsmen Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, respectively.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2025
Ensign Assard talked briefly to newsmen about the details of the unprovoked attack on the Neptune patrol plane flying out of Kodiak Naval Station over international waters between Alaska and Siberia.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 1, 2023
Wrote one of those newsmen in The Washington Post: “From the zigzag takeoff to Washington the drone had smoothly covered the miles without a hand touching controls.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 18, 2021
One half hour after the last race was run that evening, twenty-two giggling newsmen and dockers tiptoed to the top of the grandstand.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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