newswatcher

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

news +‎ watcher

Noun[edit]

newswatcher (plural newswatchers)

  1. One who watches the news; A consumer of news reporting.
    • 1991, Gerald Segal, World Affairs Companion, →ISBN, page xxi:
      The aim of this book is to help the newswatcher, newspaper reader, armchair strategist or student of international politics to make sense of the world by providing key facts and brief analyses of the essential issues in the international game.
    • 2018, Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress:
      Far from being better informed, heavy newswatchers can become miscalibrated.
    • 2018, Handbook of Behavioral Economics - Foundations and Applications, →ISBN:
      In the Hong and Stein (1999) model, private information is assumed to diffuse slowly through the newswatcher population.
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