Meaning of rewriteman | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Examples

“This was my abrupt introduction to the system by which most of the live⟳ news is handled for the New York evening newspapers [...] Its continued use⟳ has bred up two distinct and separate⟳ types of news-specialists—the leg man, who gets the story, but rarely writes it; and the rewrite⟳ man, who writes the story but rarely gets it.”

“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.”

“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.”

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