legman
Americannoun
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a person employed to transact business outside an office, especially on behalf of one whose responsibilities require presence in the office.
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Journalism. a reporter who gathers information by visiting news sources or by being present at news events.
noun
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a newsman who reports on news stories from the scene of action or original source
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a person employed to run errands, collect information, etc, outside an office
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Origin of legman
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As a young legman, whose job was to file notes to senior reporters, Bernstein was at the White House when Kennedy’s coffin was returned in the early-morning hours after his assassination.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 14, 2022
Since I then covered the tournament for Newsweek and wrote a column elsewhere that appeared only monthly, I had the time to act as his legman.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 23, 2020
Anderson’s first job in Washington was as a researcher — a legman, in the lingo — for the journalist Drew Pearson, the muckraking founder of “Washington Merry-Go-Round.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2010
Breitbart went to work for Drudge and served as his legman for 15 years, learning how to excavate news items from databases and wire-service feeds.
From Time ● Mar. 29, 2010
Not really baffling as a whodunit, but Archie Goodwin, Wolfe's legman, is reliably agreeable company as the yarn-spinner.
From Time Magazine Archive
By the summer of 1973, the world was riveted by the Watergate hearings, and Anderson and his legmen were scrambling for stories.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 24, 2014
Scores of Sun legmen, columnists and correspondents were axed; overseas, only faithful Frederick Kuh was left.
From Time Magazine Archive
They became not only Actors Cues readers but legmen as well.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Chicago, particularly, it has reached the stage where some newsmen might well wonder whether they are members of the Fourth Estate or legmen for lawyers.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Russians sent bright young Comintern legmen like Michael Borodin to "cooperate" with Sun Yat-sen at Canton while organizing the Communist Party of China at the same time.
From Time Magazine Archive
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