copyboy

Example Sentences

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Dave began as a copyboy for the paper in 1940, after a starter newspaper job in Bismarck, North Dakota and also had a postwar newspaper stint in Paris before returning to the Chronicle.

From Scientific American

In 1974, as a student at City College, he took a side job at the Post as a copyboy.

From The New Yorker

Later, I became a copyboy for the New York Herald Tribune and noticed that reporters were required to read the paper.

From Washington Post

Having briefly served as a copyboy at the AP’s Los Angeles bureau while a college student, Hamill introduced himself as “a fellow AP employee.”

From Seattle Times

He became a copyboy at what then was International News Service and went to high school at night.

From Washington Post