as in reporter
a person employed by a newspaper, magazine, or radio or television station to gather, write, or report news
any newsman will tell you that if you talk to enough people, you'll eventually get a money quote
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Recent Examples of newsman
Bartleby, to be sure, often works at home as do most newsmen.
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Peter Bart, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2025
By the time the cameras stopped clicking and the newsmen flew home, Kentucky had been humiliated in the national press, the onlooker’s violence both disputed and affirmed in accounts of this day.
—Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
At the rendezvous, newsman Chris Hansen and his cameras would come out, an interrogation would unfold, then the cops would make an arrest.
—J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
Clooney, the son of a career newsman himself, has worked tirelessly to convey the gravity and valor of Murrow’s legacy.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Sep. 2025
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Ask The Post’s journalists Our reporters and editors answer your questions.—
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Cooper told reporters in the press room after his win.—
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Ask The Post’s journalists Our reporters and editors answer your questions.—
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The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.—
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Iranian state television on Sunday morning took a page from demonstrators, having their correspondents appear on streets in several cities to show calm areas with a date stamp shown on screen.—
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The figures would have been difficult to interpret, anyway, because the large revisions to earlier months meant that the actually new numbers could not be cleanly isolated to show what happened in December alone, Nick Timaraos, the Wall Street Journal’s chief economics correspondent, noted.—
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“Newsman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/newsman. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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