Newspaper Phrases

Phrases

• A newspaper, not a snoozepaper (Mail on Sunday advertising slogan)
• Agony column
• All I know is what I read in the papers (Will Rogers quotation)
• All human life is there (News Of The World advertising slogan)
• All the news that's fit to print (New York Times advertising slogan)
• Article of faith
• As busy as a one armed paper hanger
• Bad paper
• Biggest daily sale on Earth (Daily Mirror advertising slogan)
• Captain Bob (Nickname of Robert Maxwell)
• Carbon copy
• Chequebook journalism
• Copy that
• Couldn't act his way out of a paper bag
• Cover story
• Daily dose
• Daily dozen
• Daily grind (the daily routine of a dull or boring job)
• Do you copy?
• Don't believe everything that's written in the newspapers
• Extra, extra, read all about it
• Fair market value (a reasonable price for an article for sale)
• For top laps (The Economist advertising slogan)
• Forward with Britain (Daily Mirror advertising slogan)
• Forward with the People (Daily Mirror advertising slogan)
• Fourth estate
• Free enterprise with every issue (The Economist advertising slogan)
• Grub Street hack
• Guardian angel
• Hard copy
• Have you ever wished you were better informed? (The Times advertising slogan)
• He went to bed and bound his head with vinegar and brown paper (line from nursery rhyme)
• Hit the headlines
• Hold the front page
• Hot off the press
• If you don't get it, you don't get it (The Washington Post advertising slogan)
• It is. Are you? (Independent Newspaper advertising slogan)
• It sounds alright on paper
• Letters to the editor
• Liberal media
• Light the blue touch paper and retire
• Media circus
• Media frenzy
• Mixed media
• No F.T. no comment (Financial Times Newspaper advertising slogan)
• Not worth the paper it's printed on
• On paper
• Paper Doll (Mills Brothers song)
• Paper millionaire
• Paper over the cracks
• Paper profit
• Paper the house
• Paper thin
• Paper tiger
• Paper trail
• Participatory media
• Press pass (a priority ticket giving access to events to the media)
• Put pen to paper
• Read all about it
• Social media
• Splashed across the front page
• Sunday isn't Sunday without the Sunday Times (Sunday Times advertising slogan)
• The Daily Double (Nickname of Dwight Howard)
• The Dirty Digger (Nickname of Rupert Murdoch)
• The Sunday Times is the Sunday papers (Sunday Times advertising slogan)
• The Thunderer (Nickname of The Times Newspaper)
• The daily diary of the American dream (Wall Street Journal advertising slogan)
• The genuine article (Budweiser Beer advertising slogan)
• Top people take the Times (The Times advertising slogan)
• Toxic paper
• When The Times speaks, the World listens (The Times advertising slogan)