newspaperman
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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 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
He’d been a Chicago Tribune newspaperman and an editor at, of all places, Popular Mechanics.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2023
The newspaperman stood and stuffed his notepad in his pocket.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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His westward picaresque—the funniest book on this list, or on any list—brings to life Mormon settlers, Native Americans, ’49ers, San Francisco newspapermen and Hawaiian royalty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
His father Sir Keith Murdoch, one of Australia's most distinguished newspapermen, died in 1953 and left the family a controlling share of a single newspaper, the Adelaide News.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2023
This neglect was particularly striking because Parrott had been adjacent to newspapermen for much of her unlong, action-packed life.
From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2023
Pamphleteers like Thomas Paine and newspapermen like Benjamin Franklin used the press to inform their fellow colonists of the goings-on of the Revolutionary War and to rally their neighbors to the cause.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 8, 2019
Storey might well have given up entirely, except that all around him he saw fellow newspapermen scrambling to rent space and find type and paper.
From "The Great Fire" by Jim Murphy
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