Definition of "news-writer" [news•-writ•er]

• One who gathers news for, and writes, news-letters, articles in news periodicals, or items for broadcast on news programs. (noun)

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• "Villette, who is a news-writer and deputy, was cited to appear before the municipality of Paris, under the charge of having inserted in his paper"
• "Keats had made no demonstration of political opinion; but he had dedicated his book to Leigh Hunt, a Radical news-writer, and a dubbed partisan of the"
• "It was on February 15th, 1900, that a Russian Vice-Consul for that important Province was appointed to Sistan to take the place of a Persian who was a news-writer in Russian employ."