newspaperwoman

[ nooz-pey-per-woom-uhn, nyooz-, noos-, nyoos- ]

noun

, plural news·pa·per·wom·en.

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

newspaperwoman

/ ˈnjuːzˌpeɪpəˌwʊmən /

noun

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

Gender Note

See -woman.

Word History and Origins

Origin of newspaperwoman¹

First recorded in 1880–85; newspaper + woman

Example Sentences

She was the highest-paid newspaperwoman in the Hearst organization, but the overwork came at a cost.

From Washington Post

Many of them were educated – some suffragists and newspaperwomen or even union advocates – and they purposefully helped create the twisted race politics that Sherman-Breland describes.

From The Guardian

Bob, who was taken from us far too young, taught a generation of newspapermen and newspaperwomen how to take our jobs seriously without taking ourselves seriously – to be skeptics without becoming cynics.

From Fox News

Residents hid runaway slaves until they could be moved “to the comparative safety of the interior,” according to published recollections from Nichols, the newspaperwoman.

From Washington Times

Instead, her fluency in Japanese and background as a newspaperwoman made her ideal for “morale operations” in Asia, also known as “black” propaganda — spreading authentic-sounding misinformation designed to demoralize and confuse the enemy.

From Washington Post