noun
Etymology
Origin of copyreader
Example Sentences
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In the bustling seventh-floor newsroom of the New York Daily News, a shirt-sleeved copyreader, pale-faced under the fluorescent lights, strove for a headline that would tell a crime story.
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
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
For its opening witness in three days of Washington hearings, the subcommittee, headed by Mississippi Democrat James O. Eastland, called slight, white-haired James Glaser, 56, a copyreader on the Fair-Dealing New York Post.
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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