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
Etymology
Origin of newspaperman
Example Sentences
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As if the beleaguered newspaperman hadn’t suffered enough, authorities filed a motion to seize Mr. Lai’s “offense-related properties.”
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
Looking back at those papers isn’t just the nostalgia of an old newspaperman.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 1, 2023
Toward the end of 1926, Herman Mankiewicz, the screenwriter who would co-father “Citizen Kane,” telegrammed his friend Ben Hecht, the newspaperman who was finding himself between gigs and behind on his rent.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2023
The newspaperman was daring the black bourgeoisie in Durham and across the nation to join in a new and more aggressive struggle.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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