rewriteman
noun
a newspaper employee who writes articles from available information or who reworks the copy written by reporters.
rewritemen
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pluralof rewriteman.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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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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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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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The Des Moines papers have 214 stringers; the Minneapolis Star once used three editors, five photographers and twelve reporters and rewritemen on a plane crash.
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