leg man

https://archive.org/details/stickfulsmyselft00irvi/page/136/mode/1up page 136 This was my abrupt introduction to the system by which most of the live news is handled for the New York evening newspapers … Its continued use has bred up two distinct and separate types of news-specialists—the leg man, who gets the story, but rarely writes it; and the rewrite man, who writes the story but rarely gets it. … https://archive.org/details/stickfulsmyselft00irvi/page/140/mode/1up page 140 City editors rail against these news combines, but it was the instinct of self-preservation that long ago drove the leg men into tight and fast organizations.