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

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

He became a copyboy at what then was International News Service and went to high school at night.

From Washington Post • Jul. 1, 2017

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