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newsman

noun

ˈnüz-mən

Definition of newsman

as in reporter

a person employed by a newspaper, magazine, or radio or television station to gather, write, or report news any newsman will tell you that if you talk to enough people, you'll eventually get a money quote

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Recent Examples of newsman One prominent newsman shared a snuff box with the vice president on the Senate floor. — Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 22 May 2026 David Ross, considered There’s David Ross, who, after a decade as a newsman became a public defender. — The Editorial Board, Daily News, 19 May 2026 Veteran newsman Don Lemon won a 2026 Webby Award for The Don Lemon Show and my interview with him was so gripping about the responsibility of journalism that the whole thing needs to be read. — Joshua Dudley, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026 Fifty years ago audiences were riveted by that thriller that focused on two relentless newsmen, played by Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman, who were digging into the seedy mysteries of the Watergate scandal. — Peter Bart, Deadline, 7 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for newsman

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Taylor Rooks provides features with the game’s brightest stars, and NFL reporter James Palmer delivers news from around the league.

— Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 17 Sep. 2026
Rios was not charged in connection with the helicopter crash that claimed the lives of a pilot, an NBC4 reporter and a bystander.

— Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of reporter

Noun

The other has been hidden by banning media coverage, so the world has seen nothing but cell phone videos made by Palestinian journalists risking their lives to record them.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Sep. 2026
If The Social Network was about the people who laid Facebook’s foundation, Aaron Sorkin’s follow-up, The Social Reckoning, is about the whistleblower and the journalist who exposed the rot in its infrastructure.

— Marley Marius, Vogue, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of journalist

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The discord meant the program spent much of the summer hiring replacement correspondents, including Ross Douthat, a conservative New York Times opinion writer with no experience as a TV journalist.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026
Not settlement outages or correspondent failures, but fields.

— Ran Grushkowsky, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2026

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