copyboy

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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

As a copyboy and then reporter at the Evening Star, he witnessed up close various milestones in the civil rights movement and the Kennedy presidency from inception to tragic end.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2022

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

The paths that once took 16 year-old school-leavers from shopfloor to boardroom or from copyboy to newspaper editor are blocked.

From The Guardian • Jan. 8, 2013

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