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

Looking back at those papers isn’t just the nostalgia of an old newspaperman.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 1, 2023

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

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