newsprint

news +‎ print

newsprint (countable and uncountable, plural newsprints)

1. An inexpensive paper used for printing newspapers.
   • 2001, Susan Stryker, Queer Pulp, page 73:

     The journalism trade publication Editor and Publisher announced in the spring of 1954 that more newsprint had been generated about Jorgensen during the previous year than about any other individual—over a million and a half words, the rough equivalent of fifteen full-length books.