noun
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a man who works for a newspaper as a reporter or editor
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the male owner or proprietor of a newspaper
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a man who sells newspapers in the street
Gender
See -man.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of newspaperman
Example Sentences
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As if the beleaguered newspaperman hadn’t suffered enough, authorities filed a motion to seize Mr. Lai’s “offense-related properties.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
Born to slave-owning Confederate parents, Watson watched his family descend into poverty after the Civil War, and rose to prominence in Georgia politics as a lawyer and newspaperman who assailed the prevailing economic order.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2024
Roth was a “red diaper baby,” the Jewish son of communists; his father was newspaperman and university teacher and his mother was an executive at United Artists.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2023
A newspaperman at heart, Murdoch sensed by the 1980s that the media was changing and that pay television would be a central plank of the future.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2023
The newspaperman called again to say he had found some photographs taken at Westingtown parties twenty years ago.
From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin
His westward picaresque—the funniest book on this list, or on any list—brings to life Mormon settlers, Native Americans, ’49ers, San Francisco newspapermen and Hawaiian royalty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
As newspapermen nationwide wielded “Southland” in rhetorical brawls, Harrison Gray Otis, editor of the new Los Angeles Daily Times, started doing the same.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2025
This neglect was particularly striking because Parrott had been adjacent to newspapermen for much of her unlong, action-packed life.
From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2023
Pamphleteers like Thomas Paine and newspapermen like Benjamin Franklin used the press to inform their fellow colonists of the goings-on of the Revolutionary War and to rally their neighbors to the cause.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 8, 2019
Veruca’s father, Mr. Salt, had eagerly explained to the newspapermen exactly how the ticket was found.
From "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl
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