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newsman

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++news·man /ˈnjuːzmæn $ ˈnuːz-/ noun (plural newsmen /-men/) [countable]  someone who writes or reports news for a newspaper, radio, or television 新闻记者
Examples from the Corpus
newsmanYet he showed early promise as a newsman.Many prisoners who actually had been newsmen had suffered serious abuse.Dancing newsmen have been done to death.My case can attract no eager newsmen.There were railway patterns in its drapers' shops, and railway journals in the windows of its newsmen.Adds Northern newsman Charles Coffin: There is not much order.A throng of newsmen, accompanied by their photographers, left the hall in pursuit of the vanished Amaranth.A throng of politicians, newsmen, brokers, and Army officers stood in front of the counters that encircled it.
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newsman
newsman /ˈnjuːzmæn $ ˈnuːz-/ noun (plural newsmen /-men/) [countable]
someone who writes or reports news for a newspaper, radio, or television
     
THESAURUS
    journalist someone who writes for a newspaper or magazine: She worked as a journalist on the New York Times. | I've always wanted to be a journalist.
    reporter someone whose job is to find out about news stories and ask questions for a newspaper, television or radio company etc: A crowd of reporters were waiting outside the house all night. | He told reporters that he had no intention of resigning.
    correspondent someone who writes news articles or does reports about a particular subject, especially a serious one, for a newspaper or news organization: our economics correspondent | a war correspondent | He was the BBC's correspondent in Moscow.
    columnist someone who writes articles, especially about a particular subject, that appear regularly in a newspaper or magazine: an influential financial columnist | a gossip columnist
    hack informal a disapproving word for a journalist, especially one whose work is of low quality: The editor sent one of his hacks to interview the murderer’s girlfriend.
    newsman/woman (also newspaperman/woman) a general word for someone who works for a newspaper, especially a reporter or editor: an experienced newspaperman
    the press newspapers and journalists in general: The press always like a good story about the royal family. | the right-wing press
    Fleet Street the British press. This phrase comes from the street in London, where many newspapers used to have their offices: Relations between the government and Fleet Street aren't as cosy as they once were.


news·man, BrE /ˈnjuːzmæn/ 🔊NAmE /ˈnuːzmæn/ 🔊 news·womanBrE /ˈnjuːzwʊmən/ 🔊NAmE /ˈnuːzwʊmən/ 🔊 noun (
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news·men BrE /ˈnjuːzmen/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈnuːzmen/ 🔊
, news·women BrE /ˈnjuːzwɪmɪn/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈnuːzwɪmɪn/ 🔊
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a journalist who works for a newspaper or a television or radio station 新闻记者a crowd of reporters and TV newsmen一群记者和电视新闻采编人员