noun
newsroom researcher; magazine researcher
Wasei-eigo term for a staff member who gathers and checks facts, data, or background information for news articles or magazine stories. Not a general 'data analyst'.
wasei-eigo (Japanese-coined English), from data man
彼は週刊誌のデータマンとして、記事の裏付け取材を担当している。
He works as a researcher for a weekly magazine, responsible for fact-checking articles.
新聞社のデータマンは、
A newspaper's researcher checks numbers and proper nouns in the reporters' drafts.