newshound

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 Synonyms correspondent, intelligencer, journalist, reporter, newsman, newsperson, pressman [British]Related Words announcer, broadcaster, newscaster, newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newswoman; anchor, anchorman, anchorperson, anchorwoman; byliner, columnist, commentator; copyreader, editor; muckraker, photojournalist, police reporter, sportswriter, staffer, stringer