: 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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At the rendezvous, newsman Chris Hansen and his cameras would come out, an interrogation would unfold, then the cops would make an arrest.
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J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
In that movie Beatty cast himself as a politically naïve newsman who became sympathetic to the Bolshevik (later Communist) cause.
—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
The Atomic Bowl was big news at the time, but, aside from a few accounts, including from the writings of William W. Watt, a soldier turned poet and professor, and the images of Shunichi Mori, a local newsman whose two children were killed in the blast, memory of the game disappeared.
—Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
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J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
In that movie Beatty cast himself as a politically naïve newsman who became sympathetic to the Bolshevik (later Communist) cause.
—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
The Atomic Bowl was big news at the time, but, aside from a few accounts, including from the writings of William W. Watt, a soldier turned poet and professor, and the images of Shunichi Mori, a local newsman whose two children were killed in the blast, memory of the game disappeared.
—Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
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“Newsman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/newsman. Accessed 16 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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