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News chief’s admission was moving (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

impressed

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'moving' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adjectives. Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?

'news chief's admission' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'news chief' could be 'ed' (I've seen this in other clues) and 'ed' is found within the answer.
The remaining letters 'impress' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

'was' is the link.

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(Other definitions for impressed that I've seen before include "Greatly inspired" , "printed word?" , "Stamped; moved" , "Forced into service - unlikely to forget it!" , "Markedly affected" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sunday Times.
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