noun
Etymology
Origin of copyreader
Example Sentences
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"He was a hell of a good copyreader," recalls his friend Lee Miller, who now, as managing editor of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance, sometimes refers to himself as "vice president in charge of Ernie Pyle."
From Time Magazine Archive
The New York Times thought so last fall when it sacked Jack Shafer, 44, a copyreader on the Times's Foreign Desk.
From Time Magazine Archive
The new copyreader and sometime rewrite man on the Wall Street Journal was having a hard time establishing his identity.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ep Hoyt, who climbed from lowly copyreader to publisher of the conservative Portland Oregonian in twelve years, was changing the Post's ways slowly, but in one year he had done a lot.
From Time Magazine Archive
The copyreader corrects it and writes the headlines or heads; then he sends it to the composing room to be set in type by the compositor.
From Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing by Hyde, Grant Milnor
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