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
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
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
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
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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