: a person who gathers, reports, or comments on the news : reporter, correspondent
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Examples of newsman in a Sentence
any newsman will tell you that if you talk to enough people, you'll eventually get a money quote
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News of Donahue’s death has prompted many messages on social media remembering the legendary newsman.
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Kturnqui, oregonlive, 26 Aug. 2023
This newsman joined the doomsday chorus May 4 when Bohannon was canned just hours before opening a three-game series then-No. 5 Vanderbilt.
—Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 24 May 2023
In 1976, British TV newsman David Frost approached Mr. Reston about serving as a researcher to prepare him for a series of interviews with disgraced ex-president Richard M. Nixon.
—Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 20 July 2023
Rather tells the story of how the newsman's mission took him from Ku Klux Klan rallies in the '60s to Kabul in the early 2000s, with tours of Vietnam, Pakistan and Washington, D.C. between.
—Lanford Beard, Peoplemag, 10 June 2023
Since 1974, the former newsman and his mother, Carole Salazar, have kept up the family tradition of attending the season opener together, sometimes with additional family members.
—Diane Bell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2023
Veteran newsman Bernard Shaw, CNN’s first chief anchor who helmed coverage at the cable news network for two decades, has died.
—Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2022
The Los Angeles Times has hired Kevin Merida, most recently head of ESPN's race-culture-and-sports website The Undefeated, to serve as its next executive editor, betting on a veteran newsman with multimedia experience to help usher the beleaguered paper into the digital era.
—NBC News, 3 May 2021
The film chronicles his rise from a childhood in Depression-era Texas to a decades-long run as a world-class newsman who covered conflicts in Vietnam and Afghanistan.
—Lanford Beard, Peoplemag, 11 June 2023
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Kturnqui, oregonlive, 26 Aug. 2023
This newsman joined the doomsday chorus May 4 when Bohannon was canned just hours before opening a three-game series then-No. 5 Vanderbilt.
—Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 24 May 2023
In 1976, British TV newsman David Frost approached Mr. Reston about serving as a researcher to prepare him for a series of interviews with disgraced ex-president Richard M. Nixon.
—Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 20 July 2023
Rather tells the story of how the newsman's mission took him from Ku Klux Klan rallies in the '60s to Kabul in the early 2000s, with tours of Vietnam, Pakistan and Washington, D.C. between.
—Lanford Beard, Peoplemag, 10 June 2023
Since 1974, the former newsman and his mother, Carole Salazar, have kept up the family tradition of attending the season opener together, sometimes with additional family members.
—Diane Bell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2023
Veteran newsman Bernard Shaw, CNN’s first chief anchor who helmed coverage at the cable news network for two decades, has died.
—Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2022
The Los Angeles Times has hired Kevin Merida, most recently head of ESPN's race-culture-and-sports website The Undefeated, to serve as its next executive editor, betting on a veteran newsman with multimedia experience to help usher the beleaguered paper into the digital era.
—NBC News, 3 May 2021
The film chronicles his rise from a childhood in Depression-era Texas to a decades-long run as a world-class newsman who covered conflicts in Vietnam and Afghanistan.
—Lanford Beard, Peoplemag, 11 June 2023
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First Known Use
1888, in the meaning defined above
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“Newsman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/newsman. Accessed 4 Oct. 2023.
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news·man
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: one who gathers or reports the news : reporter, correspondent
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