as in reporter
a person employed by a newspaper, magazine, or radio or television station to gather, write, or report news a newshound of the old school, he was highly skeptical of the claim that the firings weren't politically motivated

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Recent Examples of newshound All the while, the newshound indulged in her secret pleasure of writing poetry in her off time as an outlet for her homesickness and stress relief. Catharine Kaufman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Feb. 2025 Viewers, newshounds, and political pundits aren’t immune to the utopian vision of The West Wing, where the corridors of power are filled with whip-smart strategists and bright-eyed idealists who put country first. Jason Bailey, TIME, 24 July 2024 Video game newshound Wario64 first sounded the alarm on social media that the game had been removed from Steam and other PC storefronts seemingly without explanation. Ash Parrish, The Verge, 30 Jan. 2024 The transmissions are monitored not only by newshounds, but by neighborhood groups and people who make a hobby of being tuned into city life. Chelsia Rose Marcius, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2023 That may sound like a bad thing, especially coming from a newshound who, like most politics-watchers, wants to know the results as soon as humanly possible. Jill Filipovic, CNN, 21 June 2021 Everett and Fay now running around town trying to figure out what is going on — Fay not at all afraid but excited about the possibilities; Everett as cynical as any newshound can be in his early 20s — pay her a visit. Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 25 May 2020 And even the most avid newshounds are having a hard time keeping up. Chris Morris, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2020 One newshound heard that, on the night of her death, McKillop had an argument with a boyfriend, a man named Frank, in the courtyard of her apartment building. oregonlive, 10 Oct. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for newshound
Noun
  • Other congressional reporters arriving at Capitol Hill today passed these exhausted Senate reporters on their way out.
    Mackenzie Thomas, The Washington Examiner, 1 July 2025
  • The three courses finished on Dec. 9, according to the online course catalog. Reached on his cellphone Friday, Snyder declined to comment and directed an Idaho Statesman reporter to the university.
    Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • Those are all questions that journalists at NPR, and elsewhere, have relied on anonymous sources — people who do not want their names used in a story — to try to answer.
    Meghan Ashford-Grooms, NPR, 29 June 2025
  • Furthermore, there is a sustained effort to undermine the freedom of the press by targeting journalists, suing media outlets, pulling funding and even politicizing the White House press pool.
    Michael Pfleger, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2025
Noun
  • Jack Royston is chief royal correspondent for Newsweek, based in London.
    Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 June 2025
  • Associated Press Pentagon correspondent Tara Copp asked Hegseth during a June 26 briefing.
    Becket Adams, National Review, 29 June 2025

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“Newshound.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/newshound. Accessed 7 Jul. 2025.

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