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
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See -man.
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His mother was a college administrator and his father was an influential broadcaster and newsman.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025
Floyd, the newsman says, played so tr\nscendently it was like he was “unconscious” — he went to “another realm,” “that other zone.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 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
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
Later, he told a newsman that though he hadn’t studied the offer in detail, he’d decided to play the match because “there’s an awful lot of prestige of the country at stake.”
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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