copyreader
Example Sentences
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On the news desk of the Louisville Courier-Journal, Carl Braden, 40, was a quiet, efficient copyreader whose work in the office never gave his employers any cause for complaint.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
The new copyreader and sometime rewrite man on the Wall Street Journal was having a hard time establishing his identity.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the bustling seventh-floor newsroom of the New York Daily News, a shirt-sleeved copyreader, pale-faced under the fluorescent lights, strove for a headline that would tell a crime story.
From Time Magazine Archive
The usual copyreader, when he closes his eyes and smiles upon a pleasant inward vision, is thinking of starting a chicken-farm in New Jersey.
From The Cruise of the Jasper B. by Marquis, Don
