copyboy

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After dropping out of law school at the University of Chicago, he stumbled into journalism as a copyboy at the City News Bureau, chasing police calls across the city.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2025

Maybe answering that question could be the Ph.D. thesis I was headed toward 66 years ago when I answered that ad for copyboy in the late, lamented sports department of the New York Times.

From Salon • Nov. 26, 2023

In 1960, the year Bernstein started as a copyboy, fewer than 1 in 10 Americans over 25 had a college degree.

From Washington Post • Jan. 11, 2022

Bernstein quickly graduated from copyboy to the dictation desk, the now-extinct place where reporters once phoned in their stories and where Bernstein’s typing skills won accolades from top editors.

From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2022

A little after six thirty that evening, a copyboy walked in with a stack of papers.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin