newscaster

English

Etymology

From newscast +‎ -er.

Noun

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^[1], →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^[2], archived from the original on 16 April 2023:

     It is still considered embarrassing if people in authority like teachers or newscasters “shrub.”

Derived terms

• newscastress

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)

See also

• newscast