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 York Times thought so last fall when it sacked Jack Shafer, 44, a copyreader on the Times's Foreign Desk.
From Time Magazine Archive
One of our colleagues does not play, and he has appointed me his copyreader on all golf stories.
From Time Magazine Archive
British-born Eric Hawkins, who hired on as a copyreader in 1915 after abandoning a vain ambition to box, played up the New York markets, banking on the hunch that this was "must" reading to tourists.
From Time Magazine Archive
A copyreader might not find it perfect, for the assault is allotted too much space and the pursuit too little, but it tells the story in its baldest aspect.
From Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing by Grant Milnor Hyde
