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."

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Chancellor was an Eton and Cambridge man who started out as a copyreader in Reuters' London office, spent eight years as correspondent at Shanghai.

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One of our colleagues does not play, and he has appointed me his copyreader on all golf stories.

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Stauffer cubbed on the Emporia Gazette, became a reporter and copyreader on the Kansas City Star, where he worked five years.

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For a moment he felt himself to be a copyreader again on the New York Enterprise.

From The Cruise of the Jasper B. by Marquis, Don