Sentence examples for first newspaperman from inspiring English sources

Franklin was the first newspaperman in the world to report the results of a legislative vote count.

In addition, he was the first newspaperman in Britain to use the electric telegraph and is said to have appointed the first full-time war correspondent.

An innovative photojournalist, he was the first newspaperman to photograph the city of Manchester from the air in 1919 when the Manchester Corporation opened its first municipal aerodrome.

Mr. Williams was one of the very first newspapermen to be fired out of Germany after Hitler's rise to power.

The plot is relatively simple and revolves almost exclusively around Philip Rawlings, an American counter-espionage agent of the Comintern who describes himself as a "sort of a second-rate cop pretending to be a third-rate newspaperman".

William Francis Donnelly, a second-generation newspaperman who helped build the Army Times Publishing Company and the Times-Journal Company into the nation's largest publisher of military newspapers, died today at his home in Potomac, Md., a Washington suburb.

A native New Yorker and a University of Houston graduate, he's a fourth-generation newspaperman who believes journalism can solve any problem.

● Jimmy Breslin, 80 Author and newspaperman First, you've got to find a way to get rid of Albany.

As a civilian, he was a newspaperman, first with the weekly Farmington Valley Herald and then with The Hartford Times, which he served as both city hall reporter and military editor from 1947 to 1963.

It seems to have been true; the interesting bad guys of that era — the Frank Costellos and Arnold Rothsteins — apparently didn't mind having newspapermen around who were listening, perhaps because they assumed from first principles that newspapermen were harmless and too intimidated even to need to be bribed.

All this gives the 57-year-old Weil — a well-connected, third- generation newspaperman and a former Time magazine publisher — an extraordinarily free hand.