newscrawl

plural newscrawls

1. alternativeuncountableusuallyAlternative form of news crawl.

   Jay looked at a clock, then at a newscrawl on a building ticker.

   1997, Steve Perry, Ed Solomon, Men in Black, page 182

   2 more examples

   ...my eyes couldn't focus on the newscrawl at the bottom of the screen...

   2007, Brendan DuBois, Twilight, page 12

   But when the show satirized Fox News Channel — specifically, its often sensationalist newscrawl — Groening says they got spanked and are “forbidden” from taking further swipes at the network

   2007, Broadcasting & Cable, volume 137, numbers 27-34

   Synonyms: newsticker