Rewriteman

Quick meaning: Rewriteman is a noun meaning (journalism) A newspaper reporter who crafts stories from information reported by others, such as legmen.

Meaning

(journalism) A newspaper reporter who crafts stories from information reported by others, such as legmen.

Example Sentences

LEG MEN cover local events and phone the information to a rewrite man.

After working as a copy boy and then a reporter at The New York Journal-American, he joined The New York Herald Tribune as a night rewriteman.

[Allen] Raymond was the son of a Methodist lay preacher who traded his Ivy League, New England pedigree for a hardboiled journalistic persona cultivated over decades as a "legman," rewrite man, copyeditor, and reporter for a dozen urban newspapers, mostly in metropolitan New York.

Many of the changes which have taken place in the newspaper field within the last fifty years have been in the direction of specialization. At the turn of the century, for example, a reporter got his stories, wrote them, and sometimes even made up his own headlines. Legmen and rewrite men were practically unknown.

Word Forms

• rewritemen
• rewrite man

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include legman, reporter, newspaperman, newsman, journalist, pressman.

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