: 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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By the time the cameras stopped clicking and the newsmen flew home, Kentucky had been humiliated in the national press, the onlooker’s violence both disputed and affirmed in accounts of this day.
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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.
—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
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Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
At the rendezvous, newsman Chris Hansen and his cameras would come out, an interrogation would unfold, then the cops would make an arrest.
—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
See All Example Sentences for newsman
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“Newsman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/newsman. Accessed 25 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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