“Nobody could turn a breaking story as quickly and as clean as Larry,” said Terry Robertson, a former metro editor at both The Examiner and the San Francisco Chronicle. “He was a legend in my eyes.”
Larry D. Hatfield, longtime rewrite man at The San Francisco Examiner, was very active in the Newspaper Guild. The last of newspaperdom’s great rewrite men, Larry D. Hatfield of The San Francisco Examiner, died March 3 back in Iowa. He was 80.
A union leader, human rights stalwart and dedicated libertine, Hatfield died after lethal kidney trouble, crippling strokes and years of seclusion. Even the job title is misleading. At the Chronicle not so long ago, the go-to rewrite man was Susan Sward. A copy clerk would take each page from the rewriter’s smoking Underwood, at least in unattributed newspaper lore. “Larry ate wise-ass editors for breakfast.” said former Examiner Assistant Managing Editor Tim Porter. “I should know. And then he would save their asses on deadline while ripping them a new one at the same time. He lived large, in every way, and left his mark on all who worked with him.
After graduation in 1963, Hatfield worked for UPI in Pierre, S.D., and then enlisted in November. In off hours he earned a master’s from American University and worked part time at UPI. After leaving active service, he covered the news at the Washington Star.
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