rewrite man

There was a rewrite man, who as I describe him, could make the words jump like trout.

He had risen through the ranks from copy boy to become a night rewrite man, a theater columnist and a correspondent in Paris.

But Todbaum was the kind of con man whom Hollywood richly rewards, while Sandy plateaued as a competent rewrite man who never got his name on anything.

According to the Times, Virginia-born Baker began his career at the Baltimore Sun, starting as a police reporter, rewrite man and London correspondent.

Transmitting over the radio a dispatch to the newsroom in Baltimore, she used what she described as “a common Anglo-Saxon expletive” to convey her “impatience with a rewrite man.”