copyreader

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On a city daily of average size there are desk men, or copyreaders, who work under editorial direction but feel superior to the reporter because they correct his literary efforts.

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The usual copyreader, when he closes his eyes and smiles upon a pleasant inward vision, is thinking of starting a chicken-farm in New Jersey.

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And when the copyreaders come at six, it will be turned over to one of them.

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After the story is written it is turned over to the copyreader to be edited.

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The copyreader corrects it and writes the headlines or heads; then he sends it to the composing room to be set in type by the compositor.

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