copyreader

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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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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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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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