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 newspaperman at heart, Murdoch sensed by the 1980s that the media was changing and that pay television would be a central plank of the future.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 22, 2023

He’d been a Chicago Tribune newspaperman and an editor at, of all places, Popular Mechanics.

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 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