copyboy

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In 1960, the year Bernstein started as a copyboy, fewer than 1 in 10 Americans over 25 had a college degree.

From Washington Post

After buying a cheap, cream-colored suit from the cousin of a street vendor, young Carl managed to fast-talk his way into getting hired as a copyboy at The Evening Star, then the chief rival of The Washington Post.

From New York Times

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

She joined the Star in the late 1950s as a copyboy and became a reporter, covering police, courts, Capitol Hill, the White House and such topics as energy and the environment.

From Washington Post

In 1998, his brother Neil told The Record of Ontario that Norm had had a flirtation with the newspaper business as a young man but that he had deliberately botched an interview for a job as a copyboy because he wasn’t that serious about the profession.

From New York Times