copyreader

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Until his death he worked as a copyreader for the government's foreign-language publishing house in Budapest.

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Ep Hoyt, who climbed from lowly copyreader to publisher of the conservative Portland Oregonian in twelve years, was changing the Post's ways slowly, but in one year he had done a lot.

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"He was a hell of a good copyreader," recalls his friend Lee Miller, who now, as managing editor of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance, sometimes refers to himself as "vice president in charge of Ernie Pyle."

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

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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