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Newshound (noun) means (informal) A journalist who works hard to dig out news stories.

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(informal) A journalist who works hard to dig out news stories.

""You could, of course, have a prepared statement and when a newshound knocked at the door you could slide it out to him," said the journalist." — New York Magazine (1977)

"I recently received a firsthand report from an old friend — John A. Keel — who until last year was as skeptical a newshound as I have known." — Ivan Terence Sanderson, Uninvited Visitors (1967)

""I've always been a newshound and I was glued to the TV set on November 22," he recalled." — David Talbot, Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years (2007)

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