copyreader

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The new copyreader and sometime rewrite man on the Wall Street Journal was having a hard time establishing his identity.

From Time Magazine Archive

Next man to take the witness chair was Melvin L. Barnet, New York Times copyreader since 1953, who had also been named by CBS-man Burdett.

From Time Magazine Archive

Chancellor was an Eton and Cambridge man who started out as a copyreader in Reuters' London office, spent eight years as correspondent at Shanghai.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 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