English
Etymology
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-West Germanic *-ārī English newscaster
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[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
Translations
one who delivers the news
- Bulgarian: говорител (bg) m (govoritel)
- Burmese: သတင်းကြေညာသူ (my) (sa.tang:kre-nyasu)
- Catalan: presentador de notícies (ca) m, presentadora de notícies (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 新聞主播 / 新闻主播 (zh) (xīnwénzhǔbō)
- 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)
- Indonesian: pembawa berita, penyiar berita, pewara berita (literally “news presenter”)
- Japanese: ニュースキャスター (ja) (nyūsukyasutā)
- Korean: 뉴스 캐스터 (nyuseu kaeseuteo)
- Malay: penyampai berita
- Portuguese: apresentador (pt) m, apresentadora (pt) f
- Romanian: prezentator (ro) m
- Russian: телекоммента́тор (ru) m (telekommentátor), ди́ктор (ru) m (díktor), телеведу́щий (ru) m (televedúščij), веду́щий (ru) m (vedúščij)
- Spanish: presentador de noticias m, locutor de informativos m, conductor noticiero m, noticiero (es) m
- Swedish: nyhetsuppläsare (sv)
- Urdu: ناشر اخبار (nāshir-e-axbār)
- Welsh: darlledwr newyddion m, darlledwraig newyddion f
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