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 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
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 Belgian newspaperman there recognized wit and raw avarice—a useful combination in any game.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
As newspapermen nationwide wielded “Southland” in rhetorical brawls, Harrison Gray Otis, editor of the new Los Angeles Daily Times, started doing the same.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2025
In a portrait here she appears wrapped up in satin: a challenge to all newspapermen to step up their fashion game.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2023
This was a time when newspapermen like sports columnists were influential figures in their community, and when a typewriter could change a city.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 12, 2017
The "spy with no name", as the newspapermen called him, would take his secrets with him to his cell.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2017
Expecting to see only Count Atlas fouling Seabiscuit, the newspapermen saw that and something more.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
