copy editor

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Meaning

an editor who prepares text for publication

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Although Townley wrote a piece for the Asbury Park Daily Press in his brother's defense, the Tribune quickly apologized to its readers, calling Stephen Crane's piece "a bit of random correspondence, passed inadvertently by the copy editor". Source: Internet

A Big O copy editor probably wrote the headlne, "Variations on a man-in-nature theme", but Cody uses a phrase in the second paragraph that would have served better, 'The Oregonness of it". Source: Internet

He then worked briefly as a copy editor at the Associated Press 's Philadelphia bureau before joining Burger Associates, a consulting firm. Source: Internet

Elwood then told Anthony that he wished to make several minor changes, and in order not to waste Anthony's time, he had hired copy editor (and author) Robert Coulson to retype the manuscript with the changes. Source: Internet

Fox senior vice president for news Michael Clemente issued a statement saying, "This was a production error in which the copy editor changed a script and didn't alert the control room to update the video". Source: Internet

Prior to moving to Israel in 2007, she was a specialty writer and copy editor at a major daily newspaper in New Jersey and has freelanced for a variety of newspapers and periodicals since 1984. Source: Internet

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