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copyboy

[kop-ee-boi] / ˈkɒp iˌbɔɪ /


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After dropping out of law school at the University of Chicago, he stumbled into journalism as a copyboy at the City News Bureau, chasing police calls across the city.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2025

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

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 ● Nov. 15, 2021

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


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