Definition of newspaperman
:a person who owns or is employed by a newspaper
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Born in Brooklyn in 1928, Landau began his career as a newspaperman at age 17, working for five years at the New York Daily News as a staff cartoonist and illustrator while studying at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.
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Born the son of a Montana newspaperman, Scanlan started in the carnival business while in high school in Arizona.
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Tom was hired because the late Neil Morgan, then editor of our paper and for my money San Diego’s greatest newspaperman, was aboard Walter Cronkite’s yacht, on which legendary columnist Red Smith also was a passenger.
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Later a newspaperman spent time at the Volker Park fountain, a budding hangout for guitar strummers and free spirits.
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Now in his late 80s, Evans emerged from a working-class Welsh family in the provincial north of England to make his reputation as an ambitious young newspaperman.
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Hildy Johnson (John Slattery) is a newspaperman who is trying to get out of the game, despite pressure from his boss, Walter Burns (Nathan Lane).
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A former newspaperman and amateur Lincoln historian, Simon’s inclusion might have been defensible.
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Newspapermen, academics, left-leaning media critics, and right-leaning digital news sites argued that the stories were a bridge too far.
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First Known Use of newspaperman
1806
NEWSPAPERMAN Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of newspaperman for English Language Learners
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: a person (usually a man) who works as a reporter for a newspaper
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