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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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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

Before joining the Journal, he was weekend editor and a senior copy editor at The Times and The Sunday Times in London.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 20, 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

If you want to call yourself an “independent press” show me your copy editor first.

From Salon • Sep. 5, 2024

Only then does it go to the copy editor, who starts another couple of rounds of tweaking.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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