newspaperman
noun
news·pa·per·man
ˈnüz-ˌpā-pər-ˌman 
ˈnyüz-,
ˈn(y)üs-
: a person who owns or is employed by a newspaper
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She was first introduced to her future husband in May 1951 at a dinner hosted by newspaperman Charles Bartlett and his wife, Martha, who wanted to set them up.
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Mallory Moench, TIME, 19 May 2024
But Jones did play real-life newspaperman A.W. Merrick on HBO’s Deadwood throughout the show’s run from 2004 to 2006.
—Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 2024
Yet a reasonable case can be made that two essential manners in American prose—the laconic, tight-lipped style (Hemingway began as a newspaperman and sportswriter, too) and the loquacious high irony that A. J. Liebling passed on to Tom Wolfe—began in the baseball stories of the New York papers.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
Mortensen, a George Polk Award-winning newspaperman who joined ESPN in 1991, died Sunday, ESPN announced on social media.
—Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Mar. 2024
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Mallory Moench, TIME, 19 May 2024
But Jones did play real-life newspaperman A.W. Merrick on HBO’s Deadwood throughout the show’s run from 2004 to 2006.
—Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 2024
Yet a reasonable case can be made that two essential manners in American prose—the laconic, tight-lipped style (Hemingway began as a newspaperman and sportswriter, too) and the loquacious high irony that A. J. Liebling passed on to Tom Wolfe—began in the baseball stories of the New York papers.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
Mortensen, a George Polk Award-winning newspaperman who joined ESPN in 1991, died Sunday, ESPN announced on social media.
—Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Mar. 2024
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newspaperman
noun
news·pa·per·man
-ˌman
: one who owns or is employed by a newspaper
especially
: one who writes or edits copy for a newspaper
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