newsmonger

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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

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

The observer suffered for this; 130 he was a wealthy citizen, and great newsmonger, and one who haunted Paul’s Walk.

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

From the garrulous newsmonger he learned that the story of the box had had a success exceeding all Mannheim's expectations.

From Jean-Christophe, Volume I by Cannan, Gilbert

She did not know that a newsmonger is never respected, nor did she know that no girl whose nature was refined would care to know other people's business.

From Dorothy Dainty at Glenmore by Brooks, Amy