newsmonger

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When an old mustached rascal startled a credulous world by asserting that he had discovered the North Pole, Philip Gibbs, then a sharp-witted newsmonger, investigated.

From Time Magazine Archive

Tillman is a newsmonger, whose disagreeable imposture does not prevent his comic confrere from getting the real scoop on the squealer mystery.

From Time Magazine Archive

The regimental business was soon dispatched, and the adjutant, who was a capital newsmonger, began to detail the local news of the day.

From The Actress in High Life An Episode in Winter Quarters by Bowen, Sue Petigru

As soon as our historian had discovered that the poet was a brother spy and newsmonger on the side of Prince Eugene, their reciprocal civilities cooled.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac

"I knew he would show them to every newsmonger about the clubs," said Phineas angrily.

From Phineas Redux by Trollope, Anthony