copyreader

At the NSPC, copyreaders use pencils to draw copyreading symbols on the story they are given.

The copyreader is also the desk man who ushers a story into print.

Mesoga, 35, is a copyreader at the Bureau of Learning Resources at the central office of the Department of Education (DepEd) in Pasig City.

Brauchli was a 24-year veteran of Dow Jones, having started as a copyreader for the AP-Dow Jones Newswire.

Brauchli is a 23-year veteran of Dow Jones, having started as a copyreader for the AP-Dow Jones Newswire.

A former San Francisco Examiner copyreader, Hale recalled: "I was a computer bimbo.

A GROUP OF civil rights, labor and gay and lesbian activists staged a peaceful demonstration at the Tacoma, Wash., Morning News Tribune, demanding that copyreader Sandy Nelson be restored to her reporting job.

Hyde, Newspaper Editing: A Manual for Editors, Copyreaders, and Students of Newspaper Desk Work (New York: D.

I volunteered to be one of two copyreaders, not wanting anything to do with the business end of it, but merely to read the submissions and choose the best work from what was submitted.

I haven't found many typos in your magazine, so your copyreaders are doing a good job.

We the older practitioners, meanwhile, have been sharing this adversarial orientation as best as we can to the younger crop writers, reporters, copyreaders, photographers, artists, et cetera and raising awareness in them of this awesome responsibility that they must carry.This turnover to the younger journalists adjusted to the evolving milieu but still grounded on the basics of responsible journalism is our assurance that any emerging dictator will not succeed in capturing the nation.

Charles Davis, a Herald reporter and one of those who retained his job, said employees who retained their jobs also got their old salaries, but not accumulated vacation and sick leave time, and night pay differentials and premiums for editors and copyreaders were also eliminated.

Reporters, of course, loved it: If they could get a column, they could escape at last from the clutches of the enemy copyreaders. Of course, they might write rubbish, but it was their own rubbish, and after a hard day's work and a good night's sleep, they could field the morning paper on the first bounce and glory in their own unmolested prose."

In nearby Tacoma, which also considers the Mariners the home team, the issue has exacerbated a long-standing conflict between the management of the News Tribune and one of its copyreaders, Sandy Nelson.