as in newscaster
one who reads and introduces news reports on a news program
the legendary BBC newsreader now has her own current affairs program
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Recent Examples of newsreader
Apple News, the popular newsreader app that comes installed on every iPhone, is the latest media property to be warned by a regulator appointed by President Donald Trump over charges of liberal bias.
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Will Oremus, Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2026
In 2005, Roberts was promoted from newsreader to co-anchor of Good Morning America.
—Jordana Comiter, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2025
Director-general Tim Davie has previously said the BBC is reluctant to censor output, though the corporation did remove Huw Edwards content from iPlayer — including a Doctor Who episode that was re-edited — after the newsreader pleaded guilty to accessing child abuse images.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 5 Aug. 2025
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, 18 July 2025
In September, the former newsreader was handed a six-month prison sentence suspended for two years after pleading guilty to making indecent images of children.
—Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 15 July 2025
Meanwhile, the anchors of the unwatched NBC and ABC nightly newscasts have been replaced by even less likable newsreaders.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 28 June 2025
Will Oremus, Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2026
In 2005, Roberts was promoted from newsreader to co-anchor of Good Morning America.
—Jordana Comiter, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2025
Director-general Tim Davie has previously said the BBC is reluctant to censor output, though the corporation did remove Huw Edwards content from iPlayer — including a Doctor Who episode that was re-edited — after the newsreader pleaded guilty to accessing child abuse images.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 5 Aug. 2025
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, 18 July 2025
In September, the former newsreader was handed a six-month prison sentence suspended for two years after pleading guilty to making indecent images of children.
—Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 15 July 2025
Meanwhile, the anchors of the unwatched NBC and ABC nightly newscasts have been replaced by even less likable newsreaders.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 28 June 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for newsreader
Noun
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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
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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
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And in a report last week by Iranian state TV’s English-language broadcaster, an anonymous official was quoted as saying Iran had its own demands to end the fighting, including retaining sovereignty over the strait.—
Jon Gambrell,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Apr. 2026
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Landing a top Disney exec isn’t a bad next step and is a rare example of a commissioner jumping from a streamer to a broadcaster.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
1 Apr. 2026
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Perez and Cohen learned of their friends’ death from a Herald reporter.—
Carol Marbin Miller,
Miami Herald,
2 Apr. 2026
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Jeff Vorva is a freelance reporter for the Chicago Tribune.—
Jeff Vorva,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Apr. 2026
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During spring training, the Rockies auditioned Zach Goodman (announcer for the Double-A Amarillo Sod Poodles and son of Drew Goodman, the Rockies’ longtime TV play-by-play man), Albuquerque Isotopes announcer Josh Suchon, and Hartford Yard Goats announcer Jeff Dooley.—
Patrick Saunders,
Denver Post,
26 Mar. 2026
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Former Fox college football and Chicago White Sox announcer Jason Benetti will call NBC’s Sunday night games with a local analyst.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
26 Mar. 2026
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Without an anchor point, the atoms migrated away instead of forming a short circuit, preventing device failure even at extreme temperatures.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Apr. 2026
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Mule Alley opened in the summer of 2020 after the Stockyards ownership group spent years converting the historic livestock barns into upscale restaurants, boutiques and bars — with the luxury Hotel Drover as an anchor.—
Tanya Babbar,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
31 Mar. 2026
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“Newsreader.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/newsreader. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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