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

MacNeil, known as Robin, and Jim Lehrer, a former Texas newspaperman, formed one of television journalism’s most successful and enduring partnerships in 1975, when they launched what became “The PBS NewsHour.”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 12, 2024

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

The snowbound newspaperman had found several items in the files.

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin