From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishnewshoundnews‧hound /ˈnjuːzhaʊnd $ ˈnuːz-/ noun [countable] informal TCNsomeone who collects information for a newspaper or news programme → journalist
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newshound• Trumpets sounded, press-men hoisted their notebooks and their Kodaks, and cinema newshounds began to crank the handles of their cameras.• That was hard-bitten, hard-nosed, hard-drinking newshound Edgar Allan Poe.• They are not newshounds, they're more historians I guess. 