newscaster

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English

Etymology

From newscast +‎ -er.

Noun

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newscaster (plural newscasters)

  1. (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.”

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