rewriteman

re•write•man

(ˈri raɪtˌmæn)

n., pl. -men.

a newspaper editor who writes articles from available information or reworks copy written by reporters.

[1900–05, Amer.]

usage: See -man.

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In those days, Caro says, Cook was "the quintessential rewriteman, so accustomed to seeing the world through the earpiece of a telephone headset and notes taken by other men that he felt no need to see it for himself." He marvels at the fact that in three years of writing about the Manhattantown development scandal, a twenty-minute subway ride from his office, Cook never went to look at it.

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