noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a newspaper article
▪ He writes newspaper articles in the Guardian.
a newspaper column
▪ He’s the writer of a weekly newspaper column.
a newspaper competition (=organized by and advertised in a newspaper)
▪ I entered a newspaper competition for young photographer of the year.
a newspaper correspondent
▪ During the war he was employed as a newspaper correspondent.
a newspaper headline
▪ The story dominated newspaper headlines around the world.
a newspaper reporter
▪ The case attracted newspaper reporters from all over the world.
a newspaper/magazine advertisement
▪ I got the apartment through a newspaper advertisement.
advertise (sth) on television/in a newspaper etc
▪ Many companies will only advertise in the Sunday paper.
an article appears in a newspaper/magazine
▪ A couple of articles appeared in local papers, but nothing else.
an evening newspaper/paper
▪ I bought an evening newspaper to read on my way home.
media/property/business/newspaper tycoon
▪ a multi-millionaire property tycoon
newspaper stand
newspaper vendor/ice-cream etc vendor
▪ He bought a copy from a newspaper vendor.
newspaper/garage/cafe etc proprietor
newspaper/press clippings
▪ old press clippings about movie stars
press/newspaper cuttings
▪ Margot sent him some press cuttings about the wedding.
put/place an advertisement in a paper/newspaper
▪ I tried putting an advertisement for lodgers in the local paper.
television/newspaper/radio coverage (=provided by television newspapers etc)
▪ The private lives of celebrities get a lot of newspaper coverage.
television/radio/newspaper advertising
▪ Both candidates are spending millions on television advertising.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
daily
▪ Nothing irritates a daily newspaper picture editor more than an allegedly topical photograph sent to him by post.
▪ The number of jobs advertised in daily metropolitan newspapers in December fell 1. 8 percent.
▪ In addition, the opposition will be allowed to publish a daily newspaper with a circulation of 500,000.
▪ If an elected official did anything remotely similar, the editorial boards of both daily newspapers would howl for their heads.
▪ Miss N'Grabbit slapped a copy of the daily newspaper on to the polished alloy boardroom table of Mild County Enterprises.
▪ Even old forgery charges of 1813 were resurrected by the daily newspapers.
▪ The popular daily newspapers are much more likely to carry such stories today than twenty years ago.
▪ The telegraph also brought a sense of timeliness to daily newspapers.
local
▪ It was all in the local newspaper.
▪ Miss Monti ran the local newspaper that had been in her family for years.
▪ There, if the admirable local newspaper is to be believed, both religion and the family are accorded great importance!
▪ Many regional newspapers as well as local newspapers are also available over the Internet.
▪ The local radio and newspaper have announced it and the papers will be covering the event when it takes place.
▪ There are pictures of the wreck in the local newspaper.
▪ Eleven years later I worked with him as a local newspaper reporter when he was a club manager at Ayr United.
major
▪ The protest event data are coded from a reading of the Monday issues of major newspapers in the four countries.
▪ At most major newspapers, publishers control opinion pages but leave decisions on news stories to editors.
▪ Much other statistical and record material also appears from time to time in major newspapers and economic commercial and industrial periodicals.
▪ His family home in Aba was the main distributing center and office for three major newspapers in his country.
▪ I wrote to the editors of all the major newspapers and television channels asking them to cover the anniversary.
▪ In quest of mass circulation and advertising support, the major city newspapers gradually developed a tradition of political and journalistic independence.
▪ During the summer debates on New York rent control, virtually every major city newspaper editorialized against controls.
▪ No review in a major newspaper.
national
▪ A national newspaper had called for an army of Mansell fans to turn out, but fewer than two hundred actually did.
▪ Contemporary national newspapers display a number of different positions at all three levels.
▪ He has been in contact with Eddy Shah, the former national newspaper proprietor.
▪ One was reported in a national newspaper and one in a local newspaper.
▪ He knew what worked in popular national Sunday newspapers and what didn't.
▪ He has emphasised public relations to some effect: a single article in a national newspaper brought 1000 enquiries about Micromodeller.
▪ But it certainly added to the strength of the Crossman case that a great national newspaper had lined up alongside him.
▪ It is also asking for air-time on radio and television, and for access to national and provincial newspapers and magazines.
old
▪ Before he cleaned himself with old newspaper, Holly knew the germ of his idea.
▪ And when the soles got so thin that water would leak in, Kresge would line his shoes with old newspapers.
▪ Miss Print For this you have a young girl covered in old newspapers held on with scotch tape or cotton.
▪ Missus Hall would relieve herself on old newspapers in the alleyways on Central Avenue.
▪ As for being the oldest surviving newspaper, this claim is invalidated by the Worcester Post Man founded in 1709.
▪ But the 65-year-#old newspaper heiress had other ideas, said Thorstenson.
▪ He used to collect old newspapers for fish-and-chip shops.
▪ My first tip for the wise traveller is pack as many old newspapers as you can, up to the maximum permitted weight.
tabloid
▪ The husband is described as a yacht-sailing tycoon who is the darling of the New York tabloid newspapers.
▪ A woman told a tabloid newspaper that she maintained a long-term affair with Clinton while he was governor of Arkansas.
▪ The tabloid newspapers would have a field day.
▪ With his other hand he turned the pages of a tabloid newspaper, barely pausing to read the words.
▪ It is hard not to sympathise with those simple-minded viewers and tabloid newspaper editors who mistake the characters for the actors.
▪ Most tabloid newspapers are emphatically graphic in the presentation of their headlines and subheadings.
▪ Each window was no larger than a sheet of tabloid newspaper and there was clearly no upstairs to the place.
▪ Or does he want to gag free speech and have every tabloid newspaper supporting the Tory party?
weekly
▪ Q: You got your start at a weekly newspaper?
▪ Thousands of people knew him from his radio and television appearances and weekly newspaper column for the Los Angeles Times.
▪ From Tuesday weekly newspapers may be left with a burden which, sadly, many will be unable to carry.
▪ Local weekly newspapers: Most towns and the suburbs of large cities have their own weekly newspapers.
■ NOUN
advertisement
▪ In the past two months there has been a rash of newspaper advertisements for unlicensed patches available by mail order.
▪ You will be choosing the organization and then selling yourself to them, rather than relying solely upon answering newspaper advertisements.
▪ Meanwhile, their opponents are busy taking out newspaper advertisements, buying air time and working the telephones.
▪ The previous day Bull took out a newspaper advertisement promising to do better in future.
▪ The Northern responded to three newspaper advertisements placed by people selling the sought-after vouchers and asked the selling price.
▪ Speed is of the essence when following up newspaper advertisements.
▪ The panellists were selected from a group of 111 people who had responded to newspaper advertisements.
▪ Two promoted silk stockings and Florence Stack appeared in newspaper advertisements praising Tokalon beauty products.
article
▪ The second novel, of course, and then the shorter pieces - stories and some newspaper articles, and so on.
▪ The dwindling supplies of crude oil and natural gas are frequently discussed in newspaper articles.
▪ The Sunday newspaper articles had come out the week before last, and were still bringing in letters.
▪ When Dole arrived in Wisconsin three days later to give his speech, newspaper articles were quoting Clinton on welfare.
▪ They only realised he was autistic after reading a newspaper article on the symptoms.
▪ Under this cassette, bound with a rubber band, was an envelope stuffed with paper and yellowing newspaper articles.
▪ First, a trick I learnt from a newspaper article about a discovery in psychology.
▪ Beneath the letter was a xeroxed newspaper article listing all the bars in the city.
clipping
▪ Letters to be read out were spread all over the desk, along with newspaper clippings and research notes on my two guests.
▪ And where, Holtz wondered in a postscript, were the newspaper clippings from Melbourne?
▪ But remember those old newspaper clippings mentioning that he'd been hanged by the Home Office's principal Official Executioner?
▪ Eli showed him newspaper clippings, photos of bodies that had been ground under tank treads.
▪ His pocketed stash of newspaper clippings apparently fuelled vivid conversations.
▪ She was still holding the newspaper clipping about the woman who committed suicide when her son failed his college entrance exam.
▪ It is filled with newspaper clippings of championships, trophies and pictures of a younger Impastato, hair as black as ink.
▪ Bill Maher hoists a fat folder filled with newspaper clippings on to a virtually empty desk in his new Los Angeles office.
column
▪ Best-selling books, magazine articles and newspaper columns publicised his ideas.
▪ Tony Lewis, the chairman, set out the rationale in his newspaper column.
▪ Thousands of people knew him from his radio and television appearances and weekly newspaper column for the Los Angeles Times.
▪ So disillusioned and grumpy is he that he writes a local newspaper column on the subject.
▪ Can this city survive without its traditional battalions of colorful characters swaggering through saloons and newspaper columns?
▪ Instead, the information related solely to a forthcoming newspaper column which recommended the shares of particular companies.
▪ Should he try to write a newspaper column?
columnist
▪ Politicians, clergymen and newspaper columnists denounced it as brutal and abhorrent: no more than human cockfighting.
▪ The vendors' protests inspired newspaper columnists on influential papers to come to their defense.
cutting
▪ Equally intriguing are the missives from my brother, the newspaper cuttings that arrive every three weeks or so.
▪ I've had newspaper cutting sent to me by other people.
▪ Then she remembered Kev's little bundle of newspaper cuttings, and she turned to Bri with a kiss.
▪ Prints of every size showing every kind of combat from medieval jousting to the latest newspaper cuttings of the Zulu War.
▪ There are special collections of country information, newspaper cuttings, market research reports and theses.
▪ This will include newspaper cuttings and the references referred to above, although taking care not to breach copyright laws.
▪ It should contain law reports, books on personal injury, journals, box files of the newspaper cuttings and videos.
▪ The bed covered in papers: old letters, plans, newspaper cuttings, legal reports, jotters.
editor
▪ It is hard not to sympathise with those simple-minded viewers and tabloid newspaper editors who mistake the characters for the actors.
▪ He is aided by the courageous local newspaper editor and a retired missionary woman.
▪ And much of how this appears is the decision of the newspaper editors.
▪ In fact, newspaper editors sometimes do not even exercise control over large sections of their newspapers.
▪ Regional daily and weekly newspaper editor and reporters of those papers near to plant and offices.
▪ They said Hegel had had to become a newspaper editor, a schoolmaster.
▪ Everyone, even newspaper editors, were caught unawares by the Princess Diana phenomenon.
▪ But newspaper editors say there's no way a fair privacy law could be made to work.
interview
▪ In a subsequent newspaper interview she had voiced her hurt and anger that Abbado had not then even seen his child.
▪ She spent most of Thursday doing television, radio and newspaper interviews.
▪ But he is raising his public profile with newspaper interviews on issues such as black empowerment.
▪ I had even brought with me to the stadium a copy of a newspaper interview Rich Scobee had given.
proprietor
▪ Similarly the moral crusaders, newspaper proprietors and muck-raking journalists should be called off.
▪ But for the newspaper proprietors, outside competition is not always a problem.
▪ He has been in contact with Eddy Shah, the former national newspaper proprietor.
▪ Last weekend it was offered to Eddy Shah, the former national newspaper proprietor, for £16m.
▪ This may not have been very constructive, but, except towards the newspaper proprietors, it did not sound particularly bitter.
▪ Meanwhile the opinions of newspaper proprietors played a disproportionate role in determining politicians' views of what the public wanted.
▪ Eddy Shah, the former national newspaper proprietor, is one of his contacts.
▪ The same goes for certain other immigrants, such as newspaper proprietors.
report
▪ Various newspaper reports commented on Meciar's changed stance on certain issues since the election.
▪ They cite newspaper reports of police officers wearing gloves even during AIDS-related political demonstrations.
▪ The material for the newspaper reports can be gathered in four main ways.
▪ The newspaper report was based on an announcement to shareholders and the media by Navan Resources.
▪ You've read those old newspaper reports of the hanging yourself, so how could Mallik be around still to terrorise you?
▪ Recent newspaper reports have highlighted the potential threat to Britain when the Channel Tunnel links us with the Continent.
▪ Write the newspaper report of the disaster.
reporter
▪ How much easier it would be if she were a newspaper reporter, like Tracey, she thought.
▪ Don McCormack, a former newspaper reporter and editor, publishes relocation and general information guides about Northern California counties.
▪ Best-selling thriller writer Ken Follett, a former newspaper reporter himself, put in £10,000.
▪ The professional golfer is not like the newspaper reporter who wishes he were a novelist.
▪ I had a special ticket, because I was a newspaper reporter.
▪ They were restored a few hours later, after some local television and newspaper reporters got on to the story.
▪ Unfortunately, the newspaper reporter did not press him on the point.
▪ Drosnin is an investigative newspaper reporter who once wrote a best seller about Howard Hughes.
sunday
▪ Four out of five coupons now come through the Sunday newspaper.
■ VERB
advertise
▪ Full details were advertised in this newspaper over the past two weeks.
▪ The number of jobs advertised in daily metropolitan newspapers in December fell 1. 8 percent.
▪ They may be advertised in local newspapers or on local radio.
▪ Newspaper and trade journals Another alternative is to advertise in newspapers and trade journals.
▪ Brokers are listed in the Yellow Pages and also advertise in newspapers.
▪ Abortifacient pills, usually ineffectual, were widely advertised in newspapers.
▪ It will be delayed for at least three weeks to give time for the sites to be advertised in local newspapers.
appear
▪ Throughout the summer adverts will appear in newspapers and magazines reminding people of the goodness of spam.
▪ At her peak, it appeared in 900 newspapers and had an estimated 30 million readers.
▪ Indignant letters appear in newspapers, angry questions are raised on the floor of Parliament, and occasionally fights out.
▪ Her sketches are familiar to New Yorkers and have appeared on networks, newspapers and the wire services.
▪ The story of the girl pilot first appeared in a small newspaper in California.
▪ Much other statistical and record material also appears from time to time in major newspapers and economic commercial and industrial periodicals.
buy
▪ One of them left a couple of minutes later to buy a newspaper.
▪ Howard Baker and other political friends to buy the Knoxville Journal newspaper in 1980.
▪ He bought Dawn a newspaper for the journey and carried her suitcase along the platform to the compartment.
▪ He bought a couple of newspapers, then took a taxi with his luggage to the Hotel Palma.
▪ Do something obvious first-#buy some newspapers!
▪ I left the house and bought newspapers and stopped on the sidewalk to read through the ads for vacant rooms.
▪ On September 17 I bought three newspapers.
▪ This expansion brings elements of Journal news coverage to an additional four million people who buy these newspapers.
place
▪ Advertisements should be placed in local newspapers and other public places seeking contact from nurses who are not in employment.
▪ The government placed all nationalist newspapers under censorship.
▪ Neild placed advertisements in the newspapers appealing for donations.
▪ Bedford placed the newspaper on his lap.
▪ Soldiers were placed on guard outside newspapers and broadcasting offices.
publish
▪ The strip is now published in about 900 newspapers, including the Sunday Chronicle / Examiner.
▪ The account that follows was to be published in his newspaper.
▪ By then, he had decided to publish the newspaper USAfrica.
▪ Shortly before the debate, a sensational attack on lesbian and gay Christians was published by a national newspaper.
▪ The photo was published in the Independent newspaper.
▪ In addition, the opposition will be allowed to publish a daily newspaper with a circulation of 500,000.
▪ In one concession by the government on Dec. 28, it was given permission to publish its own newspaper, Rilindja Demokratika.
read
▪ Old Wang first learned the habit of reading newspapers closely during the Cultural Revolution and has several cuttings pinned on the wall.
▪ Forty-five percent of adult citizens do not read newspapers.
▪ It depicts the sad tale of a lavatory attendant, Jim, who reads newspapers to seek a new career.
▪ There, she reads the newspaper, which hangs suspended from a rack by a bamboo rod.
▪ I can read short newspaper stories or scientific articles or book chapters related to my professional work.
▪ Once Hopkinson arrived late for breakfast to find the Colonel by himself reading a newspaper.
▪ She was one of the women I tried to teach to read the newspaper.
tell
▪ She told Mary Deare the newspapers had sold out.
▪ A woman told a tabloid newspaper that she maintained a long-term affair with Clinton while he was governor of Arkansas.
▪ They were shot or had their throats cut, Alija Lujinovoc told a New York newspaper.
write
▪ So disillusioned and grumpy is he that he writes a local newspaper column on the subject.
▪ It was Cecil who wrote columns for community newspapers nominating Bombeck for president.
▪ Nobody, after all, writes to the newspapers about the last cuckoo of spring.
▪ He had written something for a newspaper in Kiev and worked on a magazine in Moscow.
▪ I campaigned at a few women's conferences and tried to write letters to newspapers and place articles on the issue.
▪ He is a prolific author and writes regularly for newspapers.
▪ One of my favourite bits concerned the column she was commissioned to write for a newspaper during the general election.
▪ His fans wrote angry letters to newspapers.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
have your nose in a book/magazine/newspaper
quality newspapers/press etc
▪ According to Hirsch and Gordon, the quality press focuses on those issues which interest and reflect its middle and upper class readership.
▪ In the quality press, first, the 1960s saw a great growth of specialization within public affairs journalism.
▪ Instant wisdom proffered by some commentators in the quality press is that Labour's task is forlorn.
▪ Such calculations are normally done daily and are published in financial and other quality newspapers.
▪ Support for the Alliance was weaker amongst readers of the tabloids than readers of the quality press: all perhaps as expected.
▪ The quality newspapers treated the story in a few paragraphs.
▪ The habit of reading the paper backwards even spread to the quality press.
▪ The same is true of the mid-market press and the quality newspapers.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a local newspaper
▪ Hearst owned several newspapers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Despite the evidence to the contrary, most of Monday morning's newspapers subscribed to the Army's version.
▪ For the newspaper industry, the news has not been good for years.
▪ In addition to all these magazines and newspapers there are trade newsletters.
▪ It had been cut from a newspaper.
▪ Jack probably read Gatsby for the same reason he read every newspaper story and book and saw every movie about gangland.
▪ That would be a matter of opinion; he had a newspaper which he kept looking at, and shaking out.
▪ The virtual explosion of community newspapers and networking newsletters is another example of alternatives to mainstream media.