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Macky is a Halifax newsie who delivers the daily paper.

Lee, the Chinese woman who runs the boarding house where Maryk lives; Miss Jean and Smitty, an African American couple; and Tommy Grogan, the Irish newsie whose home is a packing crate in an alley.

Each of the eight chapters tells an exciting story of early industrial struggle for workers' rights, from the Massachusetts mills and Pennsylvania coal mines to the New York newsie strike and Mother Jones.

* Extreme mood setting: "John Doe slumps down in his chair until midnight amid the slush and stale pizza in front of piles of unsolicited manuscripts threatening to avalanche across his half-empty bottle of cola and onto the grimy tile floor of the newsroom at Newsie magazine."

Speaking about ads, as much as I may have shunned much advertising before with my newsie bias, I am enjoying print advertising more because there are more items listed by the stores, more prices and none of the obnoxious drop-down ads which obliterate the stories I am trying to read.

The journal of Finn Reardon, a newsie. (My Name is America series).

Newsie 3: Not only that, but as soon as the war ended, people stopped buying papers.

deliver newspapers from his bike, much less hawk them on a city street like the "newsie" he plays, he said that "my cousin is 22 and he delivers papers with his car.

It's the latest move into sports by BeIN Sport, a subsidiary of the newsie's Al Jazeera Sports Media Network.

A few years back some of the alternative weeklies took the old term for a sidewalk newsboy -- a "newsie"-- and began misusing it as a synonym for any journalist.

Spotlight: Paramount Theatre launches season with musical Newsies'

Last year, Globe Live and 9Works Theatrical's 'Newsies' was also a big winner taking home Outstanding Production of Existing Material for a Musical, among others.