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English
Etymology
From newscast + -er.
Noun
newscaster (plural newscasters)
- (broadcasting, journalism) One who delivers the news for broadcast on television, radio, etc; a newsreader.
1994, Rugh Winter, Bonnie Eaker-Weil, Adultery, the Forgivable Sin:Take Linda, a thirty-nine-year-old newscaster who relished her career but began to hear the alarm ringing on her biological clock.
1997, Mervin Block, Writing Broadcast News: Shorter, Sharper, Stronger, →ISBN, page 154:Yet, a few US newscasters will go on the air at 6 pm or later and say, "Moscow said tonight.["] ... A careful writer would make his script read, "Moscow said today. ..."
2019 April 19, Alice Wairimu Nderitu, “Harro! I shrub because, really, I have no otherwise, do I?”, in The East African, archived from the original on 16 April 2023:It is still considered embarrassing if people in authority like teachers or newscasters “shrub.”
Derived terms
Translations
one who delivers the news
- Bulgarian: говорител (bg) m (govoritel)
- Burmese: သတင်းကြေညာသူ (my) (sa.tang:kre-nyasu)
- Estonian: diktor
- Finnish: uutistenlukija (fi)
- French: présentateur (fr) m, présentatrice (fr) f
- Georgian: დიქტორი (dikṭori)
- German: Nachrichtensprecher (de) m, Nachrichtensprecherin (de) f
- Hungarian: hírolvasó (hu), bemondó (hu), tévébemondó (hu)
- Malay: penyampai berita
- Portuguese: apresentador (pt) m, apresentadora f
- Russian: телекоммента́тор (ru) m (telekommentátor), ди́ктор (ru) m (díktor), телеведу́щий (ru) m (televedúščij), веду́щий (ru) m (vedúščij)
- Spanish: presentador de noticias m, presentador de informativos m, conductor (es) m
- Swedish: nyhetsuppläsare (sv)
- Urdu: ناشر اخبار (nāshir-e-axbār)
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