Hearstling

English

Etymology

From 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, […]