copyboy
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of copyboy
Example Sentences
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After dropping out of law school at the University of Chicago, he stumbled into journalism as a copyboy at the City News Bureau, chasing police calls across the city.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2025
Maybe answering that question could be the Ph.D. thesis I was headed toward 66 years ago when I answered that ad for copyboy in the late, lamented sports department of the New York Times.
From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2023
Bernstein quickly graduated from copyboy to the dictation desk, the now-extinct place where reporters once phoned in their stories and where Bernstein’s typing skills won accolades from top editors.
From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2022
She joined the Star in the late 1950s as a copyboy and became a reporter, covering police, courts, Capitol Hill, the White House and such topics as energy and the environment.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 15, 2021
A little after six thirty that evening, a copyboy walked in with a stack of papers.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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