newsmen

NOUN

reporter

Synonyms

WEAK

anchor anchor man/woman anchor person announcer columnist copy editor correspondent cub editor foreign correspondent ink slinger interviewer investigative reporter journalist legman/woman newscaster newshound newspaperman/woman newswriter pressman/woman stringer war correspondent writer

Example Sentences

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But if, like me, you think today’s media is somehow unprecedentedly conformist, consider 2022’s “City of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington” by Kathryn J. McGarr.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

Newsmen – and even the occasional newswoman – have been centre stage in Hollywood from the early days, partly because so many screenwriters had a background in journalism.

From The Guardian • Dec. 30, 2017

"Newsmen working in Italy, England or Germany would not contemplate taking press cards from the Red Brigades, I.R.A. or the Baader-Meinhof," says Yoram Ettinger, director of Israel's Government Press Office.

From Time Magazine Archive

Newsmen are not exempt from the widespread disappointment about failure to solve problems from Viet Nam to Harlem.

From Time Magazine Archive

Newsmen, cursing the undue delay, stamped their feet and slapped frozen ears with ungloved, freezing hands.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote