How to Use newsman in a Sentence

newsman

noun
  • Once again, Jim sat steady in the chair, on a nicer set this time, but still a print newsman at heart.
    Lee Cullum, Dallas News, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Those windows are one of the newsman’s favorite things about the house.
    Chris Hewitt, Star Tribune, 23 Oct. 2020
  • The myth of the objective newsman arose in the middle of the 20th century.
    Mark Antonio Wright, National Review, 25 Apr. 2021
  • Clarke said Fosdick taught him how to be an AP newsman.
    Mark Thiessen, Anchorage Daily News, 13 May 2022
  • The Times will publish a full obituary for the newsman in the coming days.
    Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2023
  • The newsman knew Michael and could see he was lost in conversation.
    Elon Green, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2021
  • From their divergent work lives, both the newsman and the director knew this.
    Peter Marks, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2020
  • Yet in his day, this newsman and canny self-promoter was one of three men racing to the North Pole, aiming to be the first to reach the top of the globe.
    David James, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Oct. 2019
  • And there is the fact that a veteran newsman preys upon a younger female co-worker in the very first scene.
    Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2017
  • Peter Finch stars in the Oscar-winning role of a newsman who, mad as hell, decides not to take it anymore.
    Mike Scott, nola.com, 6 June 2019
  • Asner was known to millions as gruff but lovable newsman Lou Grant.
    Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 29 Aug. 2021
  • Murray plays a jerkish newsman who wakes up one morning to find that he is stuck in a time loop on Groundhog Day (and, yes, that is where the term comes from).
    Will Bedingfield, Wired, 22 July 2021
  • The former newsman has video cameras trained on I-395 below.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 6 June 2022
  • Although a newsman at the time, McNamara was a sports writer for decades.
    David Ginsburg, The Seattle Times, 10 July 2018
  • Veteran newsman Dennis House will emcee the event, at which a tarp will be removed from each bear.
    Susan Dunne, courant.com, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Schiller's last star turn involved bullying newsman Jorge Ramos out of a Trump rally.
    Michael D'antonio, CNN, 11 May 2017
  • His career as a TV newsman effectively ended at the age of 52.
    Paul Farhi, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Roger Mudd was a very real newsman, reporting the news with integrity, and insight for over 30 years.
    CBS News, 26 Dec. 2021
  • In the ’90s, media types would debate whether the ethical standards of mainstream newsmen and -women applied to bloggers and their ilk.
    David Friend, Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2017
  • All these aforementioned stars had to adopt a sort of fake-newsman persona to thrive in that awkward sphere, and Klepper is no different.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 12 June 2017
  • Dave McQueen, a radio newsman with a melodious voice, dies at 78.
    Kellie Hwang, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Edward Asner, known to millions as gruff but lovable newsman Lou Grant, died Sunday at age 91.
    Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, 29 Aug. 2021
  • The film chronicles his rise from a childhood in Depression-era Texas to a decades-long run as a world-class newsman who covered conflicts in Vietnam and Afghanistan.
    Lanford Beard, Peoplemag, 11 June 2023
  • Legendary newsman Tom Brokaw is worried about his business.
    Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 10 Jan. 2020
  • But White was not the inspiration for the cartoonishly vain and sexist ‘70s-era San Diego newsman that Ferrell portrayed in the movie.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Nov. 2020
  • So Miller climbed into the forward cockpit of a T-33 jet, borrowed the newsman's 35-millimeter Bell and Howell, and bolted it to the forward gunsight.
    James Joseph, Popular Mechanics, 31 Dec. 2020
  • Huw Edwards, the presenter of the BBC’s flagship news program, took to the airwaves dressed in a dark suit and a black tie, a look that a responsible newsman doesn’t adopt lightly.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2022
  • In the picture, Tròn wears an offbeat gift from the newsman: a woolen bobble hat clearly unsuitable for the tropical sun overhead.
    Gary Jones/ Suối Đá, Time, 12 Sep. 2017
  • This newsman joined the doomsday chorus May 4 when Bohannon was canned just hours before opening a three-game series then-No. 5 Vanderbilt.
    Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 24 May 2023
  • News of Donahue’s death has prompted many messages on social media remembering the legendary newsman.
    Kturnqui, oregonlive, 26 Aug. 2023

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