composing room

Example Sentences

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Ms. Levy was hired as a “copy boy,” the archaic title used for staffers tasked with ferrying edited stories to the composing room and performing other menial tasks.

From Washington Post

After Monical was honorably discharged in 1958, he returned to Bloomington-Normal and, in 1960, began a 40-year career at The Pantagraph, working in the composing room, assembling ads and the articles.

From Washington Times

On the ensuing tour, he loosened up, particularly when we wandered around the composing room, where the next day’s paper was literally being put together, piece by lead-type piece.

From Washington Post

“The room was more exciting to me than any movie,” he recalled in a memoir, “an organized chaos of editors shouting from desks, copy boys dashing through doors into the composing room, men and women typing at big manual typewriters, telephones ringing, the wire service tickers clattering, everyone smoking and putting butts out on the floor.”

From New York Times

His father had been a newspaper printer, and Mr. Clurman began his career after his high school graduation as one of the last composing room trainees at The Post.

From Washington Post