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Copy boy

Young and junior newspaper worker

A copy boy is a typically young and junior worker on a newspaper. The job involves taking typed stories from one section of a newspaper to another. According to Bruce Guthrie, the former editor-in-chief of the Herald Sun who began work there as a copy boy in 1972:

  • Carl Bernstein
  • Charles Blackman
  • Jimmy Breslin
  • James L. Brooks

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