"newshound" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1967, Ivan Terence Sanderson, Uninvited Visitors:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1977, New York Magazine:",
          "text": "\"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.",
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          "ref": "2007, David Talbot, Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years:",
          "text": "\"I've always been a newshound and I was glued to the TV set on November 22,\" he recalled.",
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          "text": "The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account.",
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        "(informal) An investigative reporter."
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          "word": "newsmonger"
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