copyreader

A copyreader might not find it perfect, for the assault is allotted too much space and the pursuit too little, but it tells the story in its baldest aspect.

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

And when the copyreaders come at six, it will be turned over to one of them.

On a city daily of average size there are desk men, or copyreaders, who work under editorial direction but feel superior to the reporter because they correct his literary efforts.

After the story is written it is turned over to the copyreader to be edited.