newspaperman
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In reality, he was an enterprising newspaperman whose passion for Hong Kong is a microcosm of his love for America.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 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
The minister was not alone in his fight: he had a powerful ally in newspaperman Louis Austin.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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His westward picaresque—the funniest book on this list, or on any list—brings to life Mormon settlers, Native Americans, ’49ers, San Francisco newspapermen and Hawaiian royalty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
His father Sir Keith Murdoch, one of Australia's most distinguished newspapermen, died in 1953 and left the family a controlling share of a single newspaper, the Adelaide News.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2023
This neglect was particularly striking because Parrott had been adjacent to newspapermen for much of her unlong, action-packed life.
From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2023
A vanguard of horsemen cleared the thoroughfares and the appointed judges, physicians and newspapermen followed in automobiles.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 24, 2020
Inside Amity Harbor’s courthouse, opposite the courtroom’s four tall windows, a table had been set up to accommodate the influx of newspapermen to the island.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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