rewriteman
Americannoun
Gender
See -man.
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Origin of rewriteman
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He never gets a byline, never actually writes a story himself; he simply talks on the telephone, then repeats what he has learned from the conversation to a rewriteman or an other reporter.
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The Post's Guild Chairman Jay Nelson Tuck, a rewriteman, told the boss that the guild had appointed the entire Post staff to the grievance committee.
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Last July a rewriteman named Dean S. Jennings complained that he was forced to resign from Hearst's San Francisco Call-Bulletin in order to attend the Guild's national convention.
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As a sickly eleven-year-old, John showed precocious talent as a rewriteman by compiling a children's encyclopedia from John Clark Ridpath's Cyclopedia of Universal History.
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The status of newshawks, rewritemen, photographers et al. in relation to the 40-hr, maximum work week remained obscure last week.
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Because rewritemen could not find in the News's files anything about the Lonergans, nightclub pressagents were called, reporters were hustled to addresses where the Lonergans had formerly lived.
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Its staff of eight editors, 115 reporters and rewritemen and eight foreign correspondents is supplemented by 2,875 party members, who act as part-time volunteer correspondents, in almost every town in Italy.
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Able reporters and rewritemen, a paper's lifeblood, were vanishing.
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In Chicago some rewritemen still invoke the old unwritten city-room rule to omit the names of the show and the station on which a local TV newsbeat originated.
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