copydesk

But at the tabloids, the best journalists work the copydesk -- and the editors and reporters are almost as afraid of them as they are of the attorneys.

Michael Koretzky: Working at the National Enquirer Is Just Like Working at Any Other Newspaper -- But Weirder 2010

But at the tabloids, the best journalists work the copydesk -- and the editors and reporters are almost as afraid of them as they are of the attorneys.

Michael Koretzky: Working at the National Enquirer Is Just Like Working at Any Other Newspaper -- But Weirder Michael Koretzky 2010

Through a casual contact, Haslam was set up for an interview with Condé Nast editorial director Alexander Liberman and landed something far more glamorous: a job in the art department of Vogue, then under the editorship of Jessica Daves amid a netherworld of greige interiors, white-gloved assistants, high-society editors such as Babs Simpson and Chessy Rayner, and a would-be novelist on the copydesk, Joan Didion, who, Haslam recalls, spent the mornings crying.

Truly, Madly, Nicky Peretz, Evgenia 2008

I actually quoted Stacey Sher, who produced Reality Bites, talking about Hughes' influence, but we had space issues at the last minute and the copydesk had to take her out of the story.

Who Are the Women Comedy Directors Influenced by John Hughes? Melissa Silverstein 2008

There are indeed many new jobs created by Gannett's Information Center, but they are being filled by people whose jobs might otherwise be cut — like third string on the copydesk.

To Save Themselves, US Newspapers Put Readers to Work 2007

The copydesk probably checked those facts for me against the hard news story and the AP wire reports and the police statements.

Sins of Two Fathers Denis Hamill 2003

The copydesk probably checked those facts for me against the hard news story and the AP wire reports and the police statements.

Sins of Two Fathers Denis Hamill 2003

The copydesk probably checked those facts for me against the hard news story and the AP wire reports and the police statements.

Sins of Two Fathers Denis Hamill 2003

The copydesk probably checked those facts for me against the hard news story and the AP wire reports and the police statements.

Sins of Two Fathers Denis Hamill 2003

The "green eyeshades" get their label from the celluloid visors now almost extinct but once widely used by copy editors to shield their eyes from the glaring lights over the copydesk.

Woodstein U: Notes on the Mass Production and Questionable Education of Journalists 1977