Newsboy or news boy may refer to: *

Newspaper hawker A newspaper hawker, newsboy or newsie is a street vendor of newspapers without a fixed newsstand. Related jobs included paperboy, delivering newspapers to subscribers, and news butcher, selling papers on trains. Adults who sold newspapers from f ...

, a street vendor of newspapers *

Paperboy A paperboy is someoneoften an older child or adolescentwho distributes printed newspapers to homes or offices on a regular route, usually by bicycle or automobile. In Western nations during the heyday of print newspapers during the early 20th ...

or papergirl, youngsters who distributed newspapers to subscribers

People

Nicknames

Newsboy Brown David Montrose (August 17, 1905 – February 18, 1977), better known as Newsboy Brown, was an American boxer who held the World Flyweight Title for eight months in 1928. Statistical boxing website BoxRec lists Brown as the #7 ranked flyweight ...

(1905–1977), American boxer * Newsboy Moriarity (1910–1979), Irish-American mobster * Abe the Newsboy (1887–1966), American boxer

Fictional

* Newsboy, a character played by

Jeremy Wells Jeremy Wells (born 7 June 1977) is a New Zealand media personality who hosts the Radio Hauraki breakfast show with Matt Heath, '' Seven Sharp'' alongside Hilary Barry, and the NZ version of '' Taskmaster''. Career Wells first appeared on tel ...

on Mikey Havoc's MTV show in New Zealand * "Newsboy", nickname for Pete, a character in ''

Frenetic Five The ''Frenetic Five'' is a series of three text adventures about a band of superheroes, all made with TADS version 2 and distributed as freeware. The series was created by Neil deMause for the Interactive Fiction Competition. Games *''The Frene ...

'', a text-adventure series

The arts

Film

* ''

The Newsboy ''The Newsboy'' is a bronze sculpture of a newspaper carrier in Columbus, Ohio, United States. The statue, created by artist Bruce Hanners, is located outside the 8 on the Square condominium building, on Broad Street in the Capitol Square area o ...

'', a 1905 American film

Literature

* ''The Newsboy'', an American 1854 novel by

Elizabeth Oakes Smith Elizabeth Oakes Smith ( Prince; August 12, 1806 – November 16, 1893) was a poet, fiction writer, editor, lecturer, and women's rights activist whose career spanned six decades, from the 1830s to the 1880s. Most well-known at the start of her ...

* ''News Boy'', a play by

Arch Brown An arch is a vertical curved structure that spans an elevated space and may or may not support the weight above it, or in case of a horizontal arch like an arch dam, the hydrostatic pressure against it. Arches may be synonymous with vault ...

featured at the

Theatre Rhinoceros Theatre Rhinoceros or Theatre Rhino is a gay and lesbian theatre based in San Francisco. It was founded in the spring of 1977 by Lanny Baugniet (who became the theater's General Manager) and his partner Allan B. Estes, Jr. (who became the theater' ...

in San Francisco, California, U.S.

Music

Newsboys Newsboys (sometimes stylised as newsboys) are a Christian rock band founded in 1985 in Mooloolaba, Queensland, Australia, by Peter Furler and George Perdikis. Now based in Nashville, Tennessee, the band has released 17 studio albums, 6 of which ...

, an Australian Christian pop/rock band * "Newsboy", a 1966 single by English pianist

Mrs Mills Gladys Mills (; 29 August 1918 – 24 February 1978), known as Mrs Mills, was an English pianist who was active in the 1960s and 1970s, and who released many records. Her repertoire included many sing-along and party tunes made popular in the ...

Paintings

* ''The Newsboy'', an 1889 painting by American

George Newell Bowers George Newell Bowers (1849 – 1909, active 1872–1906) was an American painter in Springfield, Massachusetts. Few details are known of Bowers' life. He worked as a druggist's clerk in Springfield, Massachusetts before leaving to study ar ...

* ''The Newsboy'', an 1879 painting by English painter

Ralph Hedley Ralph Hedley (31 December 1848 – 14 June 1913) was a realist painter, woodcarver and illustrator, best known for his paintings portraying scenes of everyday life in the North East of England. Biography Born in Gilling West near Richmond, N ...

* ''The Newsboy'', an 1869 painting by Canadian-American

Edward Mitchell Bannister Edward Mitchell Bannister (November 2, 1828January 9, 1901) was an oil painter of the American Barbizon school. Born in Canada, he spent his adult life in New England in the United States. There, along with his wife Christiana Carteaux Bannist ...

* ''The News Boy'', an 1841 painting by American Henry Inman

Transport

* ''Newsboy'', an airplane that delivered newspapers for the ''

McCook Gazette The ''McCook Daily Gazette'' is a newspaper published in the city of McCook, in the southwestern part of the state of Nebraska, in the Great Plains region of the United States. It serves southwestern Nebraska and northwestern Kansas. The news ...

'' in Nebraska, U.S. * ''Newsboy'', a steam schooner acquired in 1895 by American

Robert Dollar Robert Dollar, also known as Captain Robert Dollar (1844–1932), was a Scots-American industrialist born in Bainsford, Falkirk, Scotland. The title "Captain" was honorary and he was called the "Grand Old Man of the Pacific". Both were bestowed ...

* Newsboy, a 1994 bicycle model made by

Merlin Merlin ( cy, Myrddin, kw, Marzhin, br, Merzhin) is a mythical figure prominently featured in the legend of King Arthur and best known as a mage, with several other main roles. His usual depiction, based on an amalgamation of historic and le ...

Other

* Newsboy model or

newsvendor model The newsvendor (or newsboy or single-periodWilliam J. Stevenson, Operations Management. 10th edition, 2009; page 581 or salvageable) model is a mathematical model in operations management and applied economics used to determine optimal inventory l ...

, a demand-forecasting model in operations management * Newsboys, a brand of cigar made by

Brown Brothers Tobacco Company Brown Brothers Tobacco Company was located at 119 State Street in Detroit. The building was built for brothers, Robert Hamilton Brown and John Brown who founded a cigar manufacturing business which was, at one time, the largest cigar factory under ...

* Newsboy, a horse that raced in the

1882 Kentucky Derby The 1882 Kentucky Derby was the 8th running of the Kentucky Derby. The race took place on May 16, 1882. Full results Payout *The winner received a purse of $4,560. *Second place received $200. References {{Kentucky Derby 1882 Kentucky ...