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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Carter Glass left school at 13 to become a newspaperman.
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
MacNeil, known as Robin, and Jim Lehrer, a former Texas newspaperman, formed one of television journalism’s most successful and enduring partnerships in 1975, when they launched what became “The PBS NewsHour.”
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
He’d been a Chicago Tribune newspaperman and an editor at, of all places, Popular Mechanics.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2023
I think back to the night of Mayor Carrs dinner party—the electric lights on his house, the newspaperman who was mysteriously bitten.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
In a portrait here she appears wrapped up in satin: a challenge to all newspapermen to step up their fashion game.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2023
A week later, Harding and 10 other black newspapermen gathered for cocktails at the Last Word Club on South Central Avenue at Walsh’s invitation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2017
This was a time when newspapermen like sports columnists were influential figures in their community, and when a typewriter could change a city.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 12, 2017
The "spy with no name", as the newspapermen called him, would take his secrets with him to his cell.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2017
Expecting to see only Count Atlas fouling Seabiscuit, the newspapermen saw that and something more.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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