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copy editor

NOUN

newsman/newswoman

Synonyms

WEAK

anchor anchor man/woman anchor person announcer columnist correspondent cub editor foreign correspondent ink slinger interviewer investigative reporter journalist legman/woman newscaster newshound newspaperman/woman newswriter pressman/woman stringer war correspondent writer

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Prior to that, he was a copy editor at the Star-Ledger.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

“I have been on strike for a third of my professional life,” said Erin Hebert, a 32-year-old copy editor at the Post-Gazette.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 13, 2025

Wilson was a reporter and copy editor working at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution when he made the case to report on Giovanni’s appearance in the city in 2007.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2024

If you want to call yourself an “independent press” show me your copy editor first.

From Salon • Sep. 5, 2024

Denise, the copy editor, has done all my books since Boys and Girls Together and she had never been as emotional in the margins with me before.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman

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