A journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media

Usage examples of newswriter.

Since this union newswriter was not privy to the company's planning meetings, he could not have known that in addition to paying the higher meat costs, company managers fought for the price increase as a means to raise their operators' wages.

Since then he has been employed as a surgical technician, newswriter, college instructor, television director, public relations professional, and marketing manager.

He moves the story along smoothly, as Arthur Banks -- newswriter for a local San Francisco TV station, friend of the doctor whose suspicions began the whole thing -- seeks answers to his friend's death and the deaths of others all around him.