Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A man who gathers, reports, or edits news.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A man who sells or delivers newspapers.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete One who brings news.
- n. A man who distributes or sells newspapers.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person who investigates and reports or edits news stories
Etymologies
- news + -man (Wiktionary)
Examples
“If Stewart's liberalish newsman is the voice of sanity and Colbert's right-wing talk-show host is the voice of fear, and hundreds of thousands turn out to celebrate sanity, that's a powerful statement.”
“Dan Rather, the Category 5 newsman, is on a collision course with Guantánamo Bay.”
“But unless a newsman is out of favor, Ziegler is at least accessible to the press.”
“Sylvain Gaboury/Patrick McMullan Bonnie Englebardt Lautenberg with Sen. Chuck Schumer The newsman was the evening's emcee, cracking jokes for local politicians who came out to support the S.L.E. Lupus Foundation, which helps fund research to combat its titular ailment.”
The Wall Street Journal: Local Politicians Gather to Aid Lupus Research
“Stewart hates being called a newsman, he says he's being a comedian, like you mentioned.”
Wajahat Ali: The Daily Show's "Brown Guy": Aasif Mandvi Interview
“That would be Stephen Colbert, the hilarious so-called newsman on Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report.”
“But the biggest sin that you could commit if you're a newsman is the very same thing.”
“I refused to look at the stuff and I said that this is a Cuban problem now and that we were going to solve this problem here; I am not interested in getting anything from a news organization over there; I would not even accept this sort of thing if it were from a newspapermen's organization as such; the newsman is the very heart of the newspaper and the owner is just the owner and that is all, the stockholder, but the fellow who makes the newspaper is the newsman and the fellow who gets the news is the newsman, he is the worker, he is the fellow in the shop, who does the work -- but the fellow who has a lot of money can buy a newspaper, even if he doesn't know how to read or write.”
“Buoyed by support from Republican members of Congress and CNN "newsman" Lou Dobbs, radio hatemonger Mark Levin, these liars now have a majority of Republicans nationwide doubting Obama's citizenship and a large majority of all Southern Whites saying they're either certain or doubtful that Obama was not born in this country.”
Larry Gellman: The Difference Between Criticism and Hate Speech
“A few months ago, the Birthers (championed by "newsman" Lou Dobbs) reappeared with no new information but with more energy than ever -- more than a year after they first raised the issue and dropped it due to lack of facts or proof.”
Larry Gellman: The State of Denial Has Zero Electoral Votes -- But It Seems to Be Winning
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘newsman’.
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news phrases/words
in the news, news anchor, news anchorman, news article, newsbearer, news bee, news-bell, news blackout, news-board, news boat, newsbreak, news-bringer and 141 more...
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Unneutered
These politically incorrect words for people contain the element 'man', 'son', or 'boy'.
parson, person, layman, businessman, clergyman, chairman, cameraman, craftsman, craftsmanship, fireman, fisherman, gunman and 50 more...
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Man
Everything that contains a man in it
taxman, salesman, common man, spaceman, neolithic man, straw man, seaman, fireman, spiderman, overman, old man, con man and 373 more...
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Why aren't these on Wordie yet?
Its a rhetorical question.
shaphan, shephanim, eaten, escapee, arrestee, newsboy, batboy, airman, garbageman, anchorman, guardsman, lineman and 14 more...
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