newspaperman

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Recent Examples of newspaperman Holden’s sincerity makes more of the newspaperman than is actually written in the script. Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Dec. 2024 In 1975, a highly skilled newspaperman, Roy Ockert, holding a master's degree from the University of Oklahoma, became editor of what was by then called the Batesville Daily Guard and served for 13 years, building a computerized newsroom for the paper. arkansasonline.com, 2 Nov. 2024 George Harris Trevathan, the new editor of the Guard, became one of the leading newspapermen in the state. arkansasonline.com, 2 Nov. 2024 Gervais plays Tony, a newspaperman who's sunk into miserable misanthropy after losing his wife, Lisa (Kerry Godliman), to cancer. Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 11 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for newspaperman
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Noun
  • Furthermore, there is a sustained effort to undermine the freedom of the press by targeting journalists, suing media outlets, pulling funding and even politicizing the White House press pool.
    Michael Pfleger, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2025
  • Those are all questions that journalists at NPR, and elsewhere, have relied on anonymous sources — people who do not want their names used in a story — to try to answer.
    Meghan Ashford-Grooms, NPR, 29 June 2025
Noun
  • Sweet remained a newspaperwoman to the end.
    Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 21 Aug. 2020
  • Gill’s chief patron in La Jolla was the left-leaning newspaperwoman Ellen Browning Scripps.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2021
Noun
  • Earlier Friday, before the memo was distributed, State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce told reporters that more than 25,000 Americans had reached out for information on leaving Israel, the West Bank and Iran.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 22 June 2025
  • White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Thursday that Trump was expected to make a decision about whether to directly support Israel in its attacks against Iran within the next two weeks.
    Anna Commander, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 June 2025
Noun
  • The Broadway play, which recounts CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow’s unflinching 1954 broadcasts about Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s Cold War witch hunts, has stirred comparisons between McCarthyism and Trumpism, and between the CBS network then and now.
    Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 7 June 2025
  • There were complaints that the adaptation by George Clooney and Grant Heslov was basically a reproduction of the 2005 film, which chronicled CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow’s heroic crusade against Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s communist witch hunts.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • Since its debut, The Morning Show has become the template for TV news liberalism, with Aniston, Witherspoon, and other female cast members acting as models for the behavior of the nation’s TV newswomen.
    Armond White, National Review, 20 Sep. 2024
  • What followed was a series of tense and emotional confrontations between the no-nonsense newswoman, 48, and her staff of mostly younger journalists, who pleaded for Evans and her board to explore other options.
    James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2024
Noun
  • To solve the exposition problem, the filmmakers recruited Sky Sports announcers David Croft and Martin Brundle to play themselves.
    Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 27 June 2025
  • Legendary announcer Jim Ross has shared a positive update on his health.
    Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • Jack Royston is chief royal correspondent for Newsweek, based in London.
    Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 June 2025
  • Associated Press Pentagon correspondent Tara Copp asked Hegseth during a June 26 briefing.
    Becket Adams, National Review, 29 June 2025
Noun
  • But his father, Eugene, a pressman for the local paper, abandoned the family when Hackman was 13.
    Tom Gliatto, People.com, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Eugene Allen Hackman was born in San Bernardino, California, and grew up in Danville, Illinois, where his father worked as a pressman for the Commercial-News.
    Hillel Italie, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2025

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“Newspaperman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/newspaperman. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.

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