copyreader

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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

British-born Eric Hawkins, who hired on as a copyreader in 1915 after abandoning a vain ambition to box, played up the New York markets, banking on the hunch that this was "must" reading to tourists.

From Time Magazine Archive

The new copyreader and sometime rewrite man on the Wall Street Journal was having a hard time establishing his identity.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

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