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
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Carter Glass left school at 13 to become a newspaperman.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
Me, a mild-mannered, bespectacled newspaperman, suddenly able to leap tall buildings in a single bound.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
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
A San Francisco newspaperman told his readers in the pro-Union Bay Area that secesh Angelenos filled the spring air with “Dixie.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
Then one day Dr. Shawarbi and I were introduced by a newspaperman.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
His father Sir Keith Murdoch, one of Australia's most distinguished newspapermen, died in 1953 and left the family a controlling share of a single newspaper, the Adelaide News.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2023
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
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
Mr. Bucket went to open it, and the next moment, swarms of newspapermen and photographers were pouring into the house.
From "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl
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