For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.
-- Charles Kuralt
   
Charles Kuralt   Name:
Charles Kuralt
Type:
Journalist
Nationality:
American
Birth:
September 10, 1934
Death:
July 4, 1997
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