newspaperman

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Me, a mild-mannered, bespectacled newspaperman, suddenly able to leap tall buildings in a single bound.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

Born to slave-owning Confederate parents, Watson watched his family descend into poverty after the Civil War, and rose to prominence in Georgia politics as a lawyer and newspaperman who assailed the prevailing economic order.

From Slate • Oct. 16, 2024

A San Francisco newspaperman told his readers in the pro-Union Bay Area that secesh Angelenos filled the spring air with “Dixie.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2024

A newspaperman at heart, Murdoch sensed by the 1980s that the media was changing and that pay television would be a central plank of the future.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 22, 2023

The newspaperman opened a fresh diary and resumed his note-taking.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead