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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
newsreader
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I've always though you have the right voice to be a newsreader.
▪ John Humphrys became a top BBC foreign correspondent, newsreader, and co-presenter of Radio 4's Today programme.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But by far the most significant change is the elevation of newsreader Trevor McDonald to superstar status.
▪ The newsreader would have achieved the same effect if he had suddenly broke into song.
▪ There was a woman newsreader, whose name sounded like Magda Tacker, and we soon called her Margaret Thatcher.
▪ This is something you needn't think about, as your newsreader will do it automatically.
▪ When you click on the link, Netscape or Internet Explorer will open a newsreader in a separate window.
▪ With some newsreaders, you might need to retrieve the message body and decode in two stages.
▪ You can configure your newsreader to sort threads together to follow the progress of a discussion.
Wiktionary
newsreader

n. 1 An anchorman in a news program, a news anchor, newscaster. 2 (context computing English) A program for reading and posting to newsgroups.

WordNet
newsreader

n. someone who reads out broadcast news bulletin [syn: news reader]

Wikipedia
Newsreader

Newsreader can refer to:

  • Newsreader (Usenet), a computer program for reading Usenet newsgroups
  • Newsreaders, a television series on Adult Swim
  • News presenter, a person that presents a news show on television, radio or the Internet
  • News aggregator, a computer program for syndicated Web content supplied in the form of a web feed
Newsreader (Usenet)

A newsreader is an application program that reads articles on Usenet (a distributed discussion system, which groups its content into a hierarchy of subject-related newsgroups, each of which contains multiple threads or discussions). Newsreaders act as clients which connect to a news server, via the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP), to download articles and post new articles. In addition to text-based articles, Usenet is increasingly used to distribute binary files, generally in dedicated "binaries" newsgroups.

The term newsreader is sometimes (erroneously) used interchangeably with news aggregator.

Newsreaders that help users to adhere to the established conventions of Usenet, known as netiquette, are evaluated by the Good Netkeeping Seal of Approval (GNKSA).

There are several different types of newsreaders, depending on the type of service the user needs—whether intended primarily for discussion or for downloading files posted to the alt.binaries hierarchy:

Desktop newsreaders: Designed to integrate well with common GUI environments, and often integrated with a web browser or email client. Examples: Windows Live Mail, Mozilla Thunderbird, Xnews, Forté Agent, Unison, Newswatcher and Pan.
Traditional newsreaders: Designed primarily for reading/posting text posts; limited and often cumbersome binary attachment download functionality. Gnus, as well as more specialized newsreaders such as slrn, nn and tin. Binary downloaders: Although Usenet originally started as a text-based messaging system without any file attachment ability, many Usenet users today do not participate in discussion groups, as was common during the 1980s and 1990s and only use Newsgroups for downloading files such as music, movies, pornography, software and games. Therefore, their needs call for a streamlined client for quickly grabbing binary attachments, and without the extraneous clutter of text reading and posting features for which file downloaders have little use. Examples: GrabIt, NewsBin

Usage examples of "newsreader".

Philip never confessed it, but he had settled for the bleak comfort of hopelessness the moment the voice of a WMTG newsreader coming from the portable radio on his desk had distracted his attention from an elaborate doodle with the announcement that a third name had been definitively added to that of Shane Auslander and Trey Wilk.

They came and they went, sometimes before the newsreaders had even learnt how to pronounce their names properly.

His weaponry included the famous SATAN program (the Security Administer Tool for Analyzing Networks, used by both sysadmins and hackers to check the "hackability" of computer networks), several breaking and entering programs that would let him grab root access on various types of machines and networks, a custom-made Web browser and newsreader, a cloaking program to hide his presence while he was in someone else's computer and which would delete traces of his activities when he logged off, sniffer programs that would "sniff out" - find - user-names, passwords and other helpful information on the Net or in someone's computer, a communications program to send that data back to him, encryption programs and lists of hacker Web sites and anonymizer sites (commercial services that would in effect "launder" e-mails and messages so that the recipient couldn't trace Gillette).

His weaponry included the famous SATAN program (the Security Administer Tool for Analyzing Networks, used by both sysadmins and hackers to check the “hackability” of computer networks), several breaking and entering programs that would let him grab root access on various types of machines and networks, a custom-made Web browser and newsreader, a cloaking program to hide his presence while he was in someone else’s computer and which would delete traces of his activities when he logged off, sniffer programs that would “sniff out” – find – user-names, passwords and other helpful information on the Net or in someone’s computer, a communications program to send that data back to him, encryption programs and lists of hacker Web sites and anonymizer sites (commercial services that would in effect “launder” e-mails and messages so that the recipient couldn’t trace Gillette).