copyreader

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"He was a hell of a good copyreader," recalls his friend Lee Miller, who now, as managing editor of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance, sometimes refers to himself as "vice president in charge of Ernie Pyle."

From Time Magazine Archive

Winans rose quickly after leaving the Trentonian in 1981 to become a $379-a-week copyreader at the Dow Jones News Service, a Journal affiliate.

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Ep Hoyt, who climbed from lowly copyreader to publisher of the conservative Portland Oregonian in twelve years, was changing the Post's ways slowly, but in one year he had done a lot.

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The New York Times thought so last fall when it sacked Jack Shafer, 44, a copyreader on the Times's Foreign Desk.

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

From Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing by Hyde, Grant Milnor