Noun
copy boy (plural copy boys)
(publishing) A boy employed to carry copy and run errands.
It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer's life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine. Dick Cavett
I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories. Jimmy Breslin