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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(journalism, historical) A person employed to type up news stories telephoned in by reporters..
He solved the problem of his word blindness by dictating his stories and columns to the copytakers that all newspapers once relied on (and who, as he correctly notes, would tend to undermine the favourite paragraphs of wordsmith reporters with the weary words: “Is there much more of this?”)
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Copytaker means (journalism, historical) A person employed to type up news stories telephoned in by reporters..
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He solved the problem of his word blindness by dictating his stories and columns to the copytakers that all newspapers once relied on (and who, as he correctly notes, would tend to undermine the favourite paragraphs of wordsmith reporters with the weary words: “Is there much more of this?”)
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