newspaperman

[ nooz-pey-per-man, nyooz-, noos-, nyoos- ]

noun

, plural news·pa·per·men.

1. a person employed by a newspaper or wire service as a reporter, writer, editor, etc.
2. the owner or operator of a newspaper or news service.

newspaperman

/ ˈnjuːzˌpeɪpəˌmæn /

noun

1. a man who works for a newspaper as a reporter or editor
2. the male owner or proprietor of a newspaper
3. a man who sells newspapers in the street

Gender Note

See -man.

Word History and Origins

Origin of newspaperman¹

First recorded in 1800–10; newspaper + -man

Example Sentences

“I talked to the newspaperman later and said, ‘You are a good American, aren’t you — you love your country?’”

From New York Times

Looking back at those papers isn’t just the nostalgia of an old newspaperman.

From Seattle Times

Roth was a “red diaper baby,” the Jewish son of communists; his father was newspaperman and university teacher and his mother was an executive at United Artists.

From Los Angeles Times

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

His father Sir Keith Murdoch, one of Australia's most distinguished newspapermen, died in 1953 and left the family a controlling share of a single newspaper, the Adelaide News.

From BBC