news reader

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

news reader
    n 1: someone who reads out broadcast news bulletin [syn:
         {newsreader}, {news reader}]

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

news reader

   <messaging> A {browser} program which enables a user to read
   articles posted to {Usenet}.  Articles may be stored in a
   local (or {NFS}-mounted) {spool} directory, or retrieved via
   {NNTP}.

   Examples are {rn}, {GNUS}, and {nn}.

   (1996-04-09)