newswatcher

plural newswatchers

1. One who watches the news; A consumer of news reporting.

   Far from being better informed, heavy newswatchers can become miscalibrated.

   2018, Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

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   The aim of this book is to help the newswatcher, newspaper reader, armchair strategist or student of international politics to make sense of the world by providing key facts and brief analyses of the essential issues in the international game.

   1991, Gerald Segal, World Affairs Companion, →ISBN, page xxi

   In the Hong and Stein (1999) model, private information is assumed to diffuse slowly through the newswatcher population.

   2018, Handbook of Behavioral Economics - Foundations and Applications, →ISBN