: a person who gathers, reports, or comments on the news : reporter, correspondent
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any newsman will tell you that if you talk to enough people, you'll eventually get a money quote
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Joe Reid, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2024
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Joe Reid, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2024
And for those few days in late November our TVs became a very different thing, now carrying an endless flow of newsmen talking in somber voices.
—Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 22 Nov. 2024
Election 2024: See Arizona election results Mayes will end probe of Trump's comments on Cheney
Trump's pre-election blitz included an Oct. 31 stop in Glendale with the former newsman and conservative pundit Tucker Carlson.
—Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 13 Nov. 2024
American actors John Magaro and Peter Sarsgaard play the ABC sports newsmen who forever changed live news coverage during the Israeli hostage crisis at the 1972 Munich Olympic games.
—Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 11 Oct. 2024
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“Newsman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/newsman. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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newsman
noun
news·man
-mən 
-ˌman
: one who gathers or reports the news : reporter, correspondent
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