newspaperman

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Frederick became a newspaperman and a lawyer, and eventually his father’s trusted secretary.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2026

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

Roth was a “red diaper baby,” the Jewish son of communists; his father was newspaperman and university teacher and his mother was an executive at United Artists.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2023

A rural Ohio newspaperman who had risen to U.S. senator, Harding was a reluctant compromise candidate during the 1920 Republican convention in Chicago, emerging from a proverbially smoke-filled room.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 13, 2023

I knew of one white man in Hattiesburg to whom I might turn for help—a newspaperman, P. D. East.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin