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copyreader

American  
[kop-ee-ree-der] / ˈkɒp iˌri dər /

noun

  1. an editor concerned with the preparation of copy for the typesetter and printer.

  2. Also called rim man.  a person who edits copy and writes headlines for a newspaper.


copyreader British  
/ ˈkɒpɪˌriːdə /

noun

  1. a person who edits and prepares newspaper copy for publication; subeditor

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of copyreader

An Americanism dating back to 1890–95; copy + reader

Example Sentences

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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

On the news desk of the Louisville Courier-Journal, Carl Braden, 40, was a quiet, efficient copyreader whose work in the office never gave his employers any cause for complaint.

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

Six years ago spectacled Laurence Greene, Baltimore Sun copyreader, began rummaging about in old U. S. newspaper files.

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