: a person who gathers, reports, or comments on the news : reporter, correspondent
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The Broadway play, which recounts CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow’s unflinching 1954 broadcasts about Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s Cold War witch hunts, has stirred comparisons between McCarthyism and Trumpism, and between the CBS network then and now.
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Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 7 June 2025
There were complaints that the adaptation by George Clooney and Grant Heslov was basically a reproduction of the 2005 film, which chronicled CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow’s heroic crusade against Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s communist witch hunts.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2025
The play covers a period of time in 1953 when stalwart newsman Edward R. Murrow and his team of reporters took aim at Senator Joseph R. McCarthy.
—Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 15 May 2025
In the film, David Strathairn plays CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2025
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Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 7 June 2025
There were complaints that the adaptation by George Clooney and Grant Heslov was basically a reproduction of the 2005 film, which chronicled CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow’s heroic crusade against Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s communist witch hunts.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2025
The play covers a period of time in 1953 when stalwart newsman Edward R. Murrow and his team of reporters took aim at Senator Joseph R. McCarthy.
—Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 15 May 2025
In the film, David Strathairn plays CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2025
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“Newsman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/newsman. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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newsman
noun
news·man
-mən 
-ˌman
: one who gathers or reports the news : reporter, correspondent
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