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 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

A newspaperman told of how the smoke in the furnace had caused the discovery of Mary’s bones.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright