Other forms: newscasters
A newscaster is a television announcer or reporter. The people who read the latest headlines on the evening TV news are newscasters.
You can also call a newscaster an anchor. Some are working journalists who investigate, write, and present news stories on air. Other newscasters are the polished, on-air personalities who sit at a desk and read reports that have been written by other people. The word newscaster is short for "news broadcaster," and it was coined in the 1930s to describe radio news readers.