copyreader

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The New York Times thought so last fall when it sacked Jack Shafer, 44, a copyreader on the Times's Foreign Desk.

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

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.

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Next man to take the witness chair was Melvin L. Barnet, New York Times copyreader since 1953, who had also been named by CBS-man Burdett.

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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