Hearstling

English

Etymology

Hearst + -ling

Noun

Hearstling (plural Hearstlings)

  1. (informal, historical) A person working for the media empire of American businessman William Randolph Hearst.
    • 2002, Kevin Starr, The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s:
      Underwood shared the Los Angeles beat with a number of prominent women reporters who had got their start as, or who remained, Hearstlings: reporters such as Hollywood correspondent Adela Rogers St. Johns, []
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