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 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

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

Swell ladies and gentlemen that Terrance had met on his travels, as well as a newspaperman from London come to report on the American scene.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead