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1650 Briefe Relat. Some Affaires & Transact. No. 37. 538 The Court is so proud of it, as they have caused an ample Relation of it to be printed by their ordinary News-writer.

1692 Miracles performed by Money Ep. Ded. sig. A4 Out-lye a News-writer, out-promise a Cit.

1694–5 J. Brockbank Diary (Chetham) 79 In my last I told You ye Q. was to be interred privately, but y^t was a mistake in our Newes writers.

1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical v. 52 Like our Common News-Writers, [they] steal from one another.

1724 J. Swift Let. to People of Ireland 7 As Wood has taught the London News-Writer to express it.

1757 P. Bacon Moral Quack 9 What would you have me turn Jew, and bribe the news-writers to insert foreign lies to raise and sink the price of stocks!

1794 E. Burke Speech Impeachm. W. Hastings in Wks. (1827) XVI. 54 Who in fact is this Hoolas Roi whom they represent..to be nothing but a news writer?

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 390 The newswriter rambled from coffee room to coffee room, collecting reports.

1885 Cent. Mag. July 412/2 The Persian vakeel, or news-writer..telling the story of that terrible battle.

1925 Science 26 June 657/2 Any good news writer, hearing of such a glimpse of a ‘star’ from an open window or cave opening to the south, could imagine that from a deep mine other stars could be seen.

1992 N.Y. Times 13 Dec. iii. 6/4 Cutbacks have affected the newsgathering operation. Just last week, 10 news writers out of about 40 were offered buyouts.