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copy editor

NOUN

newsman/newswoman

Synonyms

WEAK

anchor anchor man/woman anchor person announcer columnist correspondent cub editor foreign correspondent ink slinger interviewer investigative reporter journalist legman/woman newscaster newshound newspaperman/woman newswriter pressman/woman stringer war correspondent writer

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Mr. Neil began his professional writing career with the Spectator, a local free weekly, and began working for The News & Observer of Raleigh, N.C., as a copy editor in 1989.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

A retired Los Angeles Times copy editor began researching the Black Dahlia murder case in the late 1990s.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2026

“I have been on strike for a third of my professional life,” said Erin Hebert, a 32-year-old copy editor at the Post-Gazette.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 13, 2025

ChatGPT does, however, need a human copy editor.

From Slate • Oct. 6, 2025

Denise, the copy editor, has done all my books since Boys and Girls Together and she had never been as emotional in the margins with me before.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman

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