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copyreader

American  
[kop-ee-ree-der] / ˈkɒp iˌri dər /

noun

  1. an editor concerned with the preparation of copy for the typesetter and printer.

  2. Also called rim man.  a person who edits copy and writes headlines for a newspaper.


copyreader British  
/ ˈkɒpɪˌriːdə /

noun

  1. a person who edits and prepares newspaper copy for publication; subeditor

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of copyreader

An Americanism dating back to 1890–95; copy + reader

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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