newspaperman

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But the real import of the verdict may be to clear the path to a diplomatic deal that would free the 78-year-old newspaperman from his solitary cell in Lai Chi Kok prison.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 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

Toward the end of 1926, Herman Mankiewicz, the screenwriter who would co-father “Citizen Kane,” telegrammed his friend Ben Hecht, the newspaperman who was finding himself between gigs and behind on his rent.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2023

A few years later, brunch was described by New York newspaperman Frank Ward O'Malley as "the typical mid-day eating habits of a newspaper reporter."

From Salon • Mar. 24, 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