The phrase "a front pager" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to someone who frequently appears on the front page of a publication or is a prominent figure in a particular context, often in journalism or media.
Example: "As a leading journalist, she has become a front pager in the world of investigative reporting."
Alternatives: "headline maker" or "front-page news".
Jonathan's suspicions became aroused as the following story about the construction of a motorway through six villages would have been far more engaging as a front-pager.
The contribution became a hot topic in County Democratic circles, where it finally bubbled into the public arena on the left-wing community blog, Green Mountain Daily in a piece penned by GMD front pager and Washington County Democratic Party Chair, Jack McCullough (it should be noted that I am GMD's founder and current Publisher).
In a Sunday front-pager for the Times about Senate gridlock, Jonathan Weisman notes that between 1917 and 1970 there was an average of just under one filibuster per year.
Our formidable colleague James B. Stewart, currently moonlighting elsewhere in the Times Square area, had a Times front-pager yesterday detailing, as the headline put it, HOW BROCCOLI LANDED ON SUPREME COURT MENU.
By Hendrik Hertzberg November 26 , 2012In a Sunday front-pager for the Times about Senate gridlock, Jonathan Weisman notes that between 1917 and 1970 there was an average of just under one filibuster per year.
By Hendrik Hertzberg June 15 , 2012Our formidable colleague James B. Stewart, currently moonlighting elsewhere in the Times Square area, had a Times front-pager yesterday detailing, as the headline put it, HOW BROCCOLI LANDED ON SUPREME COURT MENU.
Yesterday,… As I wrote in my last post — and as Greg Sargent reports at the Washington Post's Plum Line blog — it's looking more and more likely that, come… In a Sunday front-pager for the Times about Senate gridlock, Jonathan Weisman notes that between 1917 and 1970 there was an average of just under… On the back cover of one of the 33-r.p.m.
Then, just a few days later, another front-pager featured a pair of equally prominent experts explaining their smackdown of the A.P.A.'s proposal to eliminate the "bereavement exclusion" — the two months granted the grieving before their mourning can be classified as "major" depression.
Sure, congressional aides all talk and text about Politico's stories on back-room Senate negotiations, but the Times remains the outlet in Washington that will land interviews with "three dozen current and former advisers" for a blockbuster story like the 2012 front-pager on Obama's secret "kill list".
In March, Schwarz published another front-pager: "Wives United by Husbands' Post-N.F.L. Trauma".
Allie tracked down a sophomore boy who covered the bathrooms with graffiti, and turned her exclusive interview into another front-pager.
