Angry news hound is contributor to newspaper (9,6)
I believe the answer is:
crossword setter
'contributor to newspaper' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot judge whether this works.
'angry news hound' is the wordplay.
'angry' becomes 'cross' (cross can mean annoyed or angry).
'news' becomes 'word' (synonyms).
'hound' becomes 'setter' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'cross'+'word'+'setter'='CROSSWORD SETTER'
'is' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for crossword setter that I've seen before include "In this case, yours truly" , "one making you suffer?" , "Punk, perhaps" , "Provider of puzzles" .)