Breaking news: Spooner -- poor chap -- stripped of his status
I believe the answer is:
non-person
'chap stripped of his status' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I cannot judge whether this works.
'breaking news spooner poor' is the wordplay.
'breaking' indicates putting letters inside.
'news' becomes 'nn' (I've seen this in other clues).
'poor' is an anagram indicator.
'spooner' anagrammed gives 'onperso'.
'nn' going around 'onperso' is 'NON-PERSON'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for non-person that I've seen before include "Celebrity now in obscurity" , "Way out" .)