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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Mr. Clifford is a former business associate of imprisoned newsman Jimmy Lai and author of a Lai biography, “The Troublemaker.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Murdoch’s latest marriage marks a new chapter for the conservative newsman.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2024
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
“Why are they so”—I searched for the word the newsman used—“outraged?”
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
Cato isn’t as large as many other policy shops, but it continues to punch above its weight in engaging scholars, newsmen and politicians in the great ideas of the free economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 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
Price, who launched a column called “At The White House” in 1897, got so many scoops staking out the gates that other newsmen soon began joining him.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2023
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
We were transfixed as we listened to newsmen describe the power of that very special military unit.
From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals
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