copyreader

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Stauffer cubbed on the Emporia Gazette, became a reporter and copyreader on the Kansas City Star, where he worked five years.

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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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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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"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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For a moment he felt himself to be a copyreader again on the New York Enterprise.

From The Cruise of the Jasper B. by Marquis, Don