newsaholic

English

Etymology

news +‎ -aholic

Noun

newsaholic (plural newsaholics)

  1. One who is obsessed with news; a person who likes to stay up-to-date with news.
    • 2013, Alice L. George, The Assassination of John F. Kennedy: Political Trauma and American Memory, Routledge, →ISBN, pages 98–99:
      A third-grader in Bristol, Maine, recalled the shock of seeing his “hard-boiled” teacher weeping as she delivered the bad news to her class, and he attributed his later fascination with politics and history to that single weekend in November 1963. “I've been a newsaholic ever since,” said Norm Chase thirty-five years later.
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