newspaperman

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Years later, when I was a beginning newspaperman in my 20s and Mauldin was a famed newspaperman in his 50s, I got to know him well.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 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

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

From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm