toe-touch
n.— «You talk a lot about the practice back then of the ‘toe-touch’—someone reporting a story from their home desk and then traveling only briefly to the city where the story is set just to ‘get the dateline.’ You say editors ‘often’ ordered that to be done.» —“‘E&P’ Puts Readers’ Questions to Jayson Blair” by Greg Mitchell, Joe Strupp in New York City Editor & Publisher Mar. 9, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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