newspaperman

[nooz-pey-per-man, nyooz-, noos-, nyoos-]

noun

plural

newspapermen 

1. a person employed by a newspaper or wire service as a reporter, writer, editor, etc.

2. the owner or operator of a newspaper or news service.

newspaperman

/ ˈnjuːzˌpeɪpəˌmæn /

noun

1. a man who works for a newspaper as a reporter or editor

2. the male owner or proprietor of a newspaper

3. a man who sells newspapers in the street

Gender Note

See -man.

Word History and Origins

Origin of newspaperman¹

First recorded in 1800–10; newspaper + -man

Example Sentences

Me, a mild-mannered, bespectacled newspaperman, suddenly able to leap tall buildings in a single bound.

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As newspapermen nationwide wielded “Southland” in rhetorical brawls, Harrison Gray Otis, editor of the new Los Angeles Daily Times, started doing the same.

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“I talked to the newspaperman later and said, ‘You are a good American, aren’t you — you love your country?’”

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Looking back at those papers isn’t just the nostalgia of an old newspaperman.

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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.

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