Definition of "leader-writer" [leader-writer]

• A member of the editorial staff of a newspaper who writes leaders or editorial articles. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "On that last text their leader-writer expanded very comfortingly."
• "On the slender basis thus established by our leader-writer, however, he launches off into the stratosphere, telling us that "there is never a Plan B in Brussels; Plan A is simply re-submitted over and over again until it is accepted.""
• "But, with the idée fix locked in the mind of the leader-writer, that somehow, this land is left idle, to the benefit of diverse flora and fauna, he one assumes prattles on about it affecting "bio-diversity and wildlife conservation" – from which we get a vacuous polemic about the merits of land and food management, and the CAP in general."