(n.) A commercial traveler; one employed to solicit orders for manufacturers and tradesmen.
Example Sentences:
(1) By discussing the name of the slush fund on an application for its incorporation, it says, “Julia Gillard’s conduct in this respect must be regarded as a lapse of professional judgment, but nothing more sinister.” The report does recommend Victorian and West Australian authorities consider fraud charges against Wilson and his union “bagman”, Ralph Blewitt.
(2) So hardly a journalist by most definitions; more of a bagman on his own account.