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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Frederick became a newspaperman and a lawyer, and eventually his father’s trusted secretary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 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
A newspaperman told of how the smoke in the furnace had caused the discovery of Mary’s bones.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
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
A vanguard of horsemen cleared the thoroughfares and the appointed judges, physicians and newspapermen followed in automobiles.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 24, 2020
The "spy with no name", as the newspapermen called him, would take his secrets with him to his cell.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2017
To another he talked about newspapermen in general: “Those guys always write bad stories about me. They say I’m stupid and that I have no talent in anything except for chess. It’s not true.”
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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