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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
newspaperman
noun
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▪ And he retains the sense of wry humour which he reckons every newspaperman needs, if only to keep him sane.
▪ Broadcasters and newspapermen alike were almost unanimous in their representation of the people's view on Lord Haw-Haw's fate.
▪ For one thing, he was an easterner; for another, he was a newspaperman.
▪ It would be difficult to overstate how important a figure this Baltimore newspaperman was in the world of wine.
▪ Murdoch is a newspaperman, which is something for other newspapermen to remember and value.
▪ Straus was Ickes's alter ego a newspaperman, a liberal, a fighter, a curmudgeon.
▪ There was no better candidate then Ickes's close friend, fellow newspaperman, and faithful subordinate, Mike Straus.
Wiktionary
newspaperman

n. A man who works in the production of the text of a newspaper; a reporter, editor, etc.

WordNet
newspaperman

n. a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media [syn: correspondent, newspaperwoman, newswriter, pressman]

Usage examples of "newspaperman".

Stanton was ready with that answer too: the man would have to be willing to assume responsibility for internal security, and be ready to jail disloyalists and newspapermen when their snooping bordered on spying.

Administration hospital ward, bleak and white and deathly, badgered by psychiatrists and gerontologists, prodded and tested and questioned by nurses and internes and specialists, a spectacle for visiting officials, newspapermen, article writers, actuaries, lawyers, press agents, theatrical producers, sapped like an old tree torn up by the roots.

As soon as Weston left the grillroom the newspapermen arose and followed.

The press of the agricultural workers, of the industrial workers, of the students, of the scientific investigators, of the intellectuals and artists, of the small shopkeepers, of the newspapermen themselves, of each and every one of the active components of Czech society.

She had John Kipling, who had a network of newspapermen who would gladly tell John what they knew.

As the conference continued, a strange disturbed buzzing filled the room, as if the newspapermen had just discovered some unsettling secret that had been deliberately hidden away from them.

Smith was giving his information to a group of local doctors, and a number of newspapermen had been called in.

Local newspapermen had been augmented by several from the major dailies.

Such attire was considered rather too casual by the older, more conservative rank of newspapermen, but Biggs considered himself part of a new, more progressive breed of journalist.

Parvati gave a final pitiable little yelp and out he popped, while all over India policemen were arresting people, all opposition leaders except members of the pro‑Moscow Communists, and also schoolteachers lawyers poets newspapermen trade‑unionists, in fact anyone who had ever made the mistake of sneezing during the Madam's speeches, and when the three contortionists had washed the baby and wrapped it in an old sari and brought it out for its father to see, at exactly the same moment, the word Emergency was being heard for the first time, and suspension‑of‑civil rights, and censorship‑of‑the‑press, and armoured‑units‑on‑special‑alert, and arrest‑of‑subversive‑elements.

True enough, but that pressure for deferral was known to every member of the Cabinet, and to more than a few newspapermen.

If Bloomington was really to be hit by Multivac’s lightning, it would mean newspapermen, video shows, tourists, all sorts of—strange upsets.

If Bloomington was really to be hit by Multivac’s lightning, it would mean newspapermen, video shows, tourists, all sorts of-strange upsets.

It was a story about Francis’s son Billy, written by Martin Daugherty, the newspaperman, who long ago lived next door to the Phelans on Colonie Street.

His histories of the Crimea are the work of a brilliant newspaperman, and even those who question his criticism of Raglan and other British leaders (see Colonel Adye's The Crimean War) acknowledge the quality of his reporting.