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
In England, talking heads on TV news shows are called newsreaders.
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Armond White, National Review, 20 Sep. 2024
In an interview with The Times of London, Vorderman claims there was a discrepancy in the treatment given to her and to the BBC’s high-profile newsreader Huw Edwards, who was arrested around the same time, but allowed to keep his job and salary.
—Caroline Frost, Deadline, 8 Sep. 2024
Lisa Nandy, the UK culture secretary, said the former newsreader should hand back around £200,000 ($255,000) of his pay to the BBC following his dramatic fall from grace.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 2 Aug. 2024
Edwards, formerly a prominent BBC newsreader, entered a guilty plea Wednesday to three counts of making indecent images of children.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 1 Aug. 2024
The former newsreader has spent some of the past year in a hospital and Edwards’ lawyer was keen to stress the poor state of his mental health over the past year.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 31 July 2024
The court heard that the long-time newsreader had been involved in a WhatsApp chat with an adult man from 16 December 2020 to August 2021, in which he was sent 377 explicit images, of which 41 included children.
—The Week Staff, theweek, 31 July 2024
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, 13 Mar. 2024
Amid a rapidly changing media landscape, the rise of disinformation, and a bewildering array of social media options, Russell has found a niche as a modern day newsreader — and become a media literacy expert along the way.
—Jordan-Marie Smith, NPR, 26 Mar. 2024
Armond White, National Review, 20 Sep. 2024
In an interview with The Times of London, Vorderman claims there was a discrepancy in the treatment given to her and to the BBC’s high-profile newsreader Huw Edwards, who was arrested around the same time, but allowed to keep his job and salary.
—Caroline Frost, Deadline, 8 Sep. 2024
Lisa Nandy, the UK culture secretary, said the former newsreader should hand back around £200,000 ($255,000) of his pay to the BBC following his dramatic fall from grace.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 2 Aug. 2024
Edwards, formerly a prominent BBC newsreader, entered a guilty plea Wednesday to three counts of making indecent images of children.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 1 Aug. 2024
The former newsreader has spent some of the past year in a hospital and Edwards’ lawyer was keen to stress the poor state of his mental health over the past year.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 31 July 2024
The court heard that the long-time newsreader had been involved in a WhatsApp chat with an adult man from 16 December 2020 to August 2021, in which he was sent 377 explicit images, of which 41 included children.
—The Week Staff, theweek, 31 July 2024
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, 13 Mar. 2024
Amid a rapidly changing media landscape, the rise of disinformation, and a bewildering array of social media options, Russell has found a niche as a modern day newsreader — and become a media literacy expert along the way.
—Jordan-Marie Smith, NPR, 26 Mar. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for newsreader
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Tristan Lavalette is a reporter who covers cricket, focusing on the business and politics of the sport, while also investigating its development in the U.S.Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025
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These highlights were written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story.Joshua Kaplan, ProPublica, 4 Jan. 2025
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Sitting nervously in his green room as the announcer teases his set, Wallen stares anxiously at a woman sitting silently across the way before getting his call.Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 31 Dec. 2024
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In perhaps the second-most viral game of the 2024 college football season behind the Pop-Tarts Bowl, Snoop Dogg served as host of this year’s Arizona Bowl, with the rapper taking over all aspects of the matchup, from sponsor to bandleader to play-by-play announcer.Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 29 Dec. 2024
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Yet history can be a platform or an anchor, depending on your point of view.Pete Sampson, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
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Aaron Brown, a veteran television news anchor whose steady hand helped guide CNN viewers through the unfolding tragedy of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, has died.Jim Salter and R.J. Rico, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024
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