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

Colin was the recognized newsmonger of the Mainland, and it was his habit to travel from parish to parish retailing the gossip of the countryside.

From The Pilots of Pomona by Leighton, Robert

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

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