Thesaurus results for NEWSCASTER

newscaster

noun

as in broadcaster

one who reads and introduces news reports on a news program newscasters were scrambling to put together an updated report after the unexpected turn of events

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Recent Examples of newscaster The veteran newscaster and five-time Peabody Award winner joined 60 Minutes in 1989. —

Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Apr. 2026 Ted Knight played newscaster Ted Baxter, anchor of Six O'Clock News. —

Jacqueline Weiss, PEOPLE, 1 Apr. 2026 Even the ayatollah’s first address to the people was read on state television by a newscaster. —

Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 19 Mar. 2026 The group ventriloquized the voices of authority—parents, school principals, cops, military officers, judges, politicians, newscasters, Soviet apparatchiks—and turned them into expressions of mass insanity. —

Andrew Katzenstein, The New York Review of Books, 19 Mar. 2026 Shown were clips from his cub years when Iger was a newscaster with bushy black hair. —

Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2026 World-famous newscasters didn't know who Jeffrey Epstein was. —

Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 16 Mar. 2026 The first studies on parasocial relationships, in the Eighties, were about soap opera stars and newscasters, since that was who people used to feel familiar with on a daily basis. —

Lorena O’Neil, Rolling Stone, 27 Feb. 2026 Tessa Thompson toplines as Anna, an Atlanta newscaster who has fallen into a life of reclusivity, until a murder in her nearby hometown sends her back in hopes of finding answers — and returning to her cushy gig as the face of her network. —

Derek Lawrence, HollywoodReporter, 12 Jan. 2026

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Headline speakers present at this year’s festival included composer Craig Armstrong, who sat for an in-depth conversation with Scottish broadcaster Edith Bowman about his creative process, accompanied by a live performance of his most famous scores by local music scholars.

— Zac Ntim, Deadline, 22 Apr. 2026
Earlier this month, UN experts called for an international independent investigation of Israel’s killing of journalists after the military killed three reporters in Lebanon, including one who worked for a Hezbollah-run broadcaster.

— Charbel Mallo, CNN Money, 22 Apr. 2026