copyreader
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After getting a master's degree in journalism from the University of Minnesota, he was hired by the Minneapolis Tribune as a copyreader, finally argued his way into a reporting job.
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The New York Times thought so last fall when it sacked Jack Shafer, 44, a copyreader on the Times's Foreign Desk.
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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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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.
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After the story is written it is turned over to the copyreader to be edited.
From Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing by Hyde, Grant Milnor
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.