How to Use newsman in a Sentence

newsman

noun
  • Bartleby, to be sure, often works at home as do most newsmen.
    — Peter Bart, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Those windows are one of the newsman’s favorite things about the house.
    — Chris Hewitt, Star Tribune, 23 Oct. 2020
  • Once again, Jim sat steady in the chair, on a nicer set this time, but still a print newsman at heart.
    — Lee Cullum, Dallas News, 6 Feb. 2020
  • The newsman knew Michael and could see he was lost in conversation.
    — Elon Green, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2021
  • From their divergent work lives, both the newsman and the director knew this.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2020
  • The Times will publish a full obituary for the newsman in the coming days.
    — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2023
  • And there is the fact that a veteran newsman preys upon a younger female co-worker in the very first scene.
    — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2017
  • Asner was known to millions as gruff but lovable newsman Lou Grant.
    — Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 29 Aug. 2021
  • Ford himself moved shiny-eyed into the press of newsmen, extending handshakes and thanks.
    — Peter Goldman, Newsweek, 29 Dec. 2024
  • The veteran newsman rushed into a flood as deep as his chest and pulled Madut from her white sedan – and onto his own back.
    — Michelle Krupa, Nick Valencia and Jason Morris, CNN, 27 Sep. 2024
  • The myth of the objective newsman arose in the middle of the 20th century.
    — Mark Antonio Wright, National Review, 25 Apr. 2021
  • The newsman is all in, talking the talk and walking the walk so that every Melvin Made candle is up to par.
    — Alex Ross, PEOPLE, 1 Dec. 2025
  • The newsman is not, and can never be, a prognosticator; leave that to the weatherman.
    — Harper's Magazine, 2 July 2024
  • The newsman is not, and can never be, a prognosticator; leave that to the weatherman.
    — Harper's Magazine, 2 July 2024
  • Veteran newsman Dennis House will emcee the event, at which a tarp will be removed from each bear.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Although a newsman at the time, McNamara was a sports writer for decades.
    — David Ginsburg, The Seattle Times, 10 July 2018
  • Peter Finch stars in the Oscar-winning role of a newsman who, mad as hell, decides not to take it anymore.
    — Mike Scott, nola.com, 6 June 2019
  • Tony Dokoupil wants to be a newsman for the average American.
    — Laura Wagner, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Dave McQueen, a radio newsman with a melodious voice, dies at 78.
    — Kellie Hwang, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Roger Mudd was a very real newsman, reporting the news with integrity, and insight for over 30 years.
    — CBS News, 26 Dec. 2021
  • His career as a TV newsman effectively ended at the age of 52.
    — Paul Farhi, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Murray plays a jerkish newsman who wakes up one morning to find that he is stuck in a time loop on Groundhog Day (and, yes, that is where the term comes from).
    — Will Bedingfield, Wired, 22 July 2021
  • Yet in his day, this newsman and canny self-promoter was one of three men racing to the North Pole, aiming to be the first to reach the top of the globe.
    — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Oct. 2019
  • The veteran newsman could very well have a career on his pal Andy Cohen’s Bravo network.
    — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 17 Nov. 2025
  • In the ’90s, media types would debate whether the ethical standards of mainstream newsmen and -women applied to bloggers and their ilk.
    — David Friend, Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Larger than life does not do him justice; Arnett was a newsman’s newsman, full of tales of derring-do in Vietnam and many other wars around the globe.
    — Peter Bergen, CNN Money, 18 Dec. 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
  • Dokoupil isn’t the only CBS newsman to comment on this unprecedented time at the network.
    — Jack Dunn, Variety, 4 June 2026
  • Edward Asner, known to millions as gruff but lovable newsman Lou Grant, died Sunday at age 91.
    — Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, 29 Aug. 2021

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