: 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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Brian Truitt, USA Today, 25 July 2025
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Of particular interest to the veteran newsman were barrels used to make Bardstown Bourbon Company's Cathedral French Oak Barrel Finish bourbon.
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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.
—Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 7 June 2025
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Brian Truitt, USA Today, 25 July 2025
Longtime residents will remember that South Bay newsman Rigo Chacon started a nonprofit and scholarship fund called Abrazos and Books back in 1990, after being moved by the devastation created by the Mexico City earthquake.
—Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 19 Nov. 2024
Of particular interest to the veteran newsman were barrels used to make Bardstown Bourbon Company's Cathedral French Oak Barrel Finish bourbon.
—Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
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.
—Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 7 June 2025
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“Newsman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/newsman. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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newsman
noun
news·man
-mən 
-ˌman
: one who gathers or reports the news : reporter, correspondent
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