noun
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a woman who works for a newspaper as a reporter or editor
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the female owner or proprietor of a newspaper
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a woman who sells newspapers in the street
Gender
See -woman.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of newspaperwoman
Example Sentences
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She was the highest-paid newspaperwoman in the Hearst organization, but the overwork came at a cost.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 11, 2022
But the first Black woman to run for vice president in the nation’s history was trailblazing newspaperwoman Charlotta Spears Bass.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 23, 2020
Instead, her fluency in Japanese and background as a newspaperwoman made her ideal for “morale operations” in Asia, also known as “black” propaganda — spreading authentic-sounding misinformation designed to demoralize and confuse the enemy.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 8, 2015
Only in her later years did she switch to murder mysteries — five books in which a nosey newspaperwoman helps solve killings at Princeton.
From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2010
A New York newspaperwoman; well, what do you suppose she is doing out here?
From The Strange Case of Cavendish by Randall Parrish
Bob, who was taken from us far too young, taught a generation of newspapermen and newspaperwomen how to take our jobs seriously without taking ourselves seriously – to be skeptics without becoming cynics.
From Fox News ● Nov. 16, 2018
"I know your organization was founded by six Washington newspaperwomen in 1919," the President told the Washington Press Club in 1981.
From Time Magazine Archive
Penny Fuller and Lindsay Anne Grouse appear as newspaperwomen who help out with leads at key moments—the former dizzily, the latter with touching reluctance to betray a lost love.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is a book calculated to make old men sigh, young men dreamy, newspaperwomen reminiscent.
From Time Magazine Archive
I remember a visit which three American newspaperwomen paid to him one day at his headquarters.
From The A.E.F. With General Pershing and the American Forces by Heywood Broun
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