'newsreader' originates from English, specifically the compound 'news' + 'reader', where 'news' meant 'new things' and 'reader' meant 'one who reads'.

'news' changed from Middle English 'newes' (originally plural of 'new') and 'reader' comes from Old English 'rǣdere' (from the verb 'rǣdan'), and these elements combined in modern English to form 'newsreader'.

Initially, 'news' meant 'new things', but over time it evolved into its current meaning of 'information about recent events'; consequently 'newsreader' came to mean 'a person who reads or presents that information'.