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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Years later, when I was a beginning newspaperman in my 20s and Mauldin was a famed newspaperman in his 50s, I got to know him well.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 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 minister was not alone in his fight: he had a powerful ally in newspaperman Louis Austin.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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 vanguard of horsemen cleared the thoroughfares and the appointed judges, physicians and newspapermen followed in automobiles.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 24, 2020
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
The "spy with no name", as the newspapermen called him, would take his secrets with him to his cell.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2017
Storey might well have given up entirely, except that all around him he saw fellow newspapermen scrambling to rent space and find type and paper.
From "The Great Fire" by Jim Murphy
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