copyreader
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Chancellor was an Eton and Cambridge man who started out as a copyreader in Reuters' London office, spent eight years as correspondent at Shanghai.
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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.
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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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Until his death he worked as a copyreader for the government's foreign-language publishing house in Budapest.
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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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.