: a person who gathers, reports, or comments on the news : reporter, correspondent
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any newsman will tell you that if you talk to enough people, you'll eventually get a money quote
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In that movie Beatty cast himself as a politically naïve newsman who became sympathetic to the Bolshevik (later Communist) cause.
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Peter Bart, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2025
Clooney, the son of a career newsman himself, has worked tirelessly to convey the gravity and valor of Murrow’s legacy.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Sep. 2025
But that all changes when new editor-in-chief Ned (Domhnall Gleeson) takes over, an old-school newsman who writes his stories on a vintage typewriter.
—Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 3 Sep. 2025
Gleeson's intrepid newsman dreams of being Clark Kent, who, as Ned sees it, saves the world not as his superhero alter ego but as a reporter for The Daily Planet.
—EW.com, 26 Aug. 2025
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Peter Bart, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2025
Clooney, the son of a career newsman himself, has worked tirelessly to convey the gravity and valor of Murrow’s legacy.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Sep. 2025
But that all changes when new editor-in-chief Ned (Domhnall Gleeson) takes over, an old-school newsman who writes his stories on a vintage typewriter.
—Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 3 Sep. 2025
Gleeson's intrepid newsman dreams of being Clark Kent, who, as Ned sees it, saves the world not as his superhero alter ego but as a reporter for The Daily Planet.
—EW.com, 26 Aug. 2025
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“Newsman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/newsman. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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newsman
noun
news·man
-mən 
-ˌman
: one who gathers or reports the news : reporter, correspondent
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