newsreader

noun

news·​read·​er ˈnüz-ˌrē-dər How to pronounce newsreader (audio)
ˈnyüz-
chiefly British
: a news broadcaster

Examples of newsreader in a Sentence

the legendary BBC newsreader now has her own current affairs program
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In England, talking heads on TV news shows are called newsreaders. Armond White, National Review, 20 Sep. 2024 In an interview with The Times of London, Vorderman claims there was a discrepancy in the treatment given to her and to the BBC’s high-profile newsreader Huw Edwards, who was arrested around the same time, but allowed to keep his job and salary. Caroline Frost, Deadline, 8 Sep. 2024 Lisa Nandy, the UK culture secretary, said the former newsreader should hand back around £200,000 ($255,000) of his pay to the BBC following his dramatic fall from grace. Jake Kanter, Deadline, 2 Aug. 2024 Edwards, formerly a prominent BBC newsreader, entered a guilty plea Wednesday to three counts of making indecent images of children. Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 1 Aug. 2024 The former newsreader has spent some of the past year in a hospital and Edwards’ lawyer was keen to stress the poor state of his mental health over the past year. Max Goldbart, Deadline, 31 July 2024 The court heard that the long-time newsreader had been involved in a WhatsApp chat with an adult man from 16 December 2020 to August 2021, in which he was sent 377 explicit images, of which 41 included children. The Week Staff, theweek, 31 July 2024 In Paul Greengrass’s film News of the World, for instance, Tom Hanks plays a traveling newsreader whose attempt to return a girl to her family doubles as a tour of a country whose divisions look like clear roots to some of our current national troubles. Keith Phipps, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2024 Amid a rapidly changing media landscape, the rise of disinformation, and a bewildering array of social media options, Russell has found a niche as a modern day newsreader — and become a media literacy expert along the way. Jordan-Marie Smith, NPR, 26 Mar. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1925, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of newsreader was in 1925

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“Newsreader.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/newsreader. Accessed 6 Nov. 2024.

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