newspaperman

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But the real import of the verdict may be to clear the path to a diplomatic deal that would free the 78-year-old newspaperman from his solitary cell in Lai Chi Kok prison.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025

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 San Francisco newspaperman told his readers in the pro-Union Bay Area that secesh Angelenos filled the spring air with “Dixie.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2024

A rural Ohio newspaperman who had risen to U.S. senator, Harding was a reluctant compromise candidate during the 1920 Republican convention in Chicago, emerging from a proverbially smoke-filled room.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 13, 2023

“I’m a newspaperman from New York City, here to do a feature about the Key West story.”

From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm