newspaperman

noun news·pa·per·man \ ˈnüz-ˌpā-pər-ˌman , ˈnyüz- , ˈn(y)üs- \

Updated on: 8 Apr 2018

Definition of newspaperman

: a person who owns or is employed by a newspaper

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Recent Examples of newspaperman from the Web

The Billy Graham thing started Thursday night, and one person who stopped by was the old newspaperman Charlie Miller.

— will higgins, Indianapolis Star, "In 1999 in Indianapolis, Billy Graham saved a cynical journalist," 22 Feb. 2018
Payne graduated from UConn in 1964 with dreams of working as a newspaperman.

— matthew ormseth, courant.com, "Les Payne, Hartford Product An Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist, Dies at 76," 21 Mar. 2018
Still, when a newspaperman gets the chance to accept the credit the winning coach awarded him with a sarcastic smirk, take it, take it, take it.

— bill livingston, cleveland.com, "March Madness 2018: How the media (blush) saved Ohio State -- Bill Livingston," 16 Mar. 2018
Robert Redford is great, Dustin Hoffman so good as a chain-smoking reporter … but the actor who rang the most true to me, as a newspaperman? Jason Robards, as Ben Bradlee.

— peter king, SI.com, "Negotiating With The Enemy: Inside the Richard Sherman-49ers Contract Talks," 12 Mar. 2018
One winter day, a newspaperman saw her shooting ... alone.

— scott ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, "The Warriors once drafted a woman to play in the NBA: Here’s her story," 9 Mar. 2018
The Rothschild house and grounds were under siege from a small army of newspapermen, mainly from America.

— andrew morton, Town & Country, "Wallis Simpson and the Aftermath of the Abdication," 13 Feb. 2018
Words to live by, especially coming from a great newspaperman with ink in his veins.

— kevin scarbinsky, AL.com, "My last column: Rides don't last much longer or get any better," 2 Feb. 2018
But following the death of legendary newspaperman Mike Royko in 1997, it was determined that Kass would be more of an asset to the Republican-leaning daily as a columnist.

— john greenfield, Chicago Reader, "John Kass is a real chumbolone," 20 Dec. 2017

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