paragrapher

especially British, par·a·graph·ist

[par-uh-graf-er, -grah-fer]

noun

1. a person who writes very short pieces or fillers for a newspaper.

Word History and Origins

Origin of paragrapher¹

1815–25; paragraph ( def. ) + -er ¹

Example Sentences

I must just see if there are any of those horrible little gossip paragraphers here to-day.

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Newspaper reporters, paragraphers, and magazine writers have never wearied of limning her life, recounting even the smallest incidents and making of her a conspicuous figure in the literature of the Northwest.

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She saw that he had caught the spirit of the paragrapher's fling.

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It's a paragrapher's proverb that railwaymen can't tell the truth, though I think a good many of us try to confine ourselves to the scenic lie.

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She is what you call a plain woman, and they're unmistakably 'new rich', but the newspaper paragrapher will never have anything on her.

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