Hearstling

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noun

A person working for the media empire of American businessman William Randolph Hearst.

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Meanings

nounHearstling (plural Hearstlings)

plural Hearstlings

  1. historicalinformalA person working for the media empire of American businessman William Randolph Hearst.

    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, […]

    2002, Kevin Starr, The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s

Origin

From Hearst + -ling.

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APA

Hearstling. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Hearstling

MLA

“Hearstling.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Hearstling. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Hearstling,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Hearstling.

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