newspaperman

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Me, a mild-mannered, bespectacled newspaperman, suddenly able to leap tall buildings in a single bound.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 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 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

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

A Belgian newspaperman there recognized wit and raw avarice—a useful combination in any game.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver