rewriteman

[ ree-rahyt-man ]

noun

, plural re·write·men.

1. a newspaper employee who writes articles from available information or who reworks the copy written by reporters.

Gender Note

See -man.

Word History and Origins

Origin of rewriteman¹

An Americanism dating back to 1900–05; rewrite + man

Example Sentences

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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Pause and bean-lean Rewriteman Mel Heimer, 28, who now writes the Arpad stories, have given their bird a personality as individual as Donald Duck's.

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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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City Editor Harry Johnston assigned Rewriteman Ralph O'Leary, 42, to "take your time, and find out all you can about this thing."

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