newspaperman

Example Sentences

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Carter Glass left school at 13 to become a newspaperman.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 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

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

He’d been a Chicago Tribune newspaperman and an editor at, of all places, Popular Mechanics.

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2023

“A way with babies. I like it!” the newspaperman said, writing down the quote.

From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm