newsman
Americannoun
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newsmen
plural
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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
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Perhaps we really do live in a “demented slaughterhouse of a world,” as the unhinged newsman Howard Beale says in one of his apocalyptic broadcasts, and have all along.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
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
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
The renowned newsman lauded his pal as “certainly one of the two or three great secretaries of state of our century.”
From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2023
Capron, a newsman from Auburn, New York, was naturally curious to know more about this strange, new phenomenon.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
One later recalled, “Nothing we newsmen ate that day led us to foresee that soybeans were destined a few years later to become an ingredient in many popular food products, some of them delicious.”
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
Prosecuting newsmen is a delicate proposition because it implicates a constitutional right.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026
Phone lines for the three major broadcast networks were down, leaving the CNN newsmen the only American journalists able to provide live reports via satellite phones.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2022
But on that day, when America faced the worst of humanity, it had three newsmen at the peak of their powers.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 3, 2021
The newsmen went to take his picture while Simpson was posting us around the LZ.
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
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