A person who deals in newspapers; a news-vender.(noun)
The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)
Use "news-agent" in a sentence
"Six weeks later, Nicola — who acted as regular news-agent to the house — informed me that Grandmamma had left the whole of her fortune to Lubotshka, with, as her trustee until her majority, not Papa, but Prince Ivan Ivanovitch!"
"It is quite common for the Court barber to marry the King's daughter, and to succeed him as ruler; but the barber was, of course, surgeon or blood-letter as well as the principal news-agent -- the forerunner of the daily newspaper of our times."
"Then there is the humorous news-agent who takes charge of the smoking car between Jamaica and Oyster Bay."