Spectator beginning to engage you with news -- it's awful! (10)
I believe the answer is:
eyewitness
'spectator' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'beginning to engage you with news it's awful' is the wordplay.
'beginning to' suggests taking the first letters.
'you' becomes 'ye' (**).
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'awful' indicates an anagram.
The first letter of 'engage' is 'e'.
'news'+'its'='newsits'
'newsits' anagrammed gives 'witness'.
'e'+'ye'+'witness'='EYEWITNESS'
(Other definitions for eyewitness that I've seen before include "The Observer" , "Spectator" , "evidence?" , "One seeing (eg, crime)" , "He observed" .)