legman
Americannoun
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legmen
plural
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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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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
On the basis of that work, the Washington Post used Hosenball as a legman on a separate CIA story.
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
Recently the Republican National Committee sent Victor Johnston, one of its ablest legmen, on a scouting expedition to Seattle to look into the chances of unseating Magnuson this year.
From Time Magazine Archive
James Whitmore is a scientific crime fighter, and John Woodruff and Enzo Cerusico are his legmen in the premiere of this new mystery comedy series.
From Time Magazine Archive
Anderson and his legmen have a certain disdain for conventional journalistic standards, believing that most large news organizations are too timid and too respectful of those in authority.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their work is anything but orthodox: cinema students actually help shoot Italian films; journalists work as legmen for Rome reporters.
From Time Magazine Archive
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