newsmonger

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When an old mustached rascal startled a credulous world by asserting that he had discovered the North Pole, Philip Gibbs, then a sharp-witted newsmonger, investigated.

From Time Magazine Archive

Tillman is a newsmonger, whose disagreeable imposture does not prevent his comic confrere from getting the real scoop on the squealer mystery.

From Time Magazine Archive

The competition is for the poet, the novelist, the newsmonger, or some enfant terrible, whose autograph is rare to excess.

From The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Hazlitt, William Carew

I believe you will make me grow a little of a newsmonger, though you are none; but I know that at a distance, in the country, letters of news are a regale.

From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Walpole, Horace

Is a state newsmonger; and his own genius is his intelligencer.

From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various