Word: proofer
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Trying to fit a perfect phrase (in the occasional circumstance that a headline writer comes up with one) into and awkwardly small spot on a page is just one of many tasks for which an assistant night editor or proofer is responsible...
Laying out pages can pose the same problems. A story can come to the editor or proofer in perfect printability and still be changed to fit the space available in the next day's paper...
...sibling mag, I am lazier and more irresponsible than a news reporter. Someone writing for The Crimson would look up the magazine's age and get its class year and middle initial. I let stuff like that slide in the pages of the mag because I know the Crimson proofer will pick up after...
...night editor tries to send the copy down to be set in type as soon as possible. He edits all copy including the Notice Column and the Associated Press news, which streams in steadily all evening from the teletype. Sometime around 2:30 a.m. the might editor and his proofer go out for a last cup of coffee, while the press rolls out 4500 copies of Cambridge's only breakfast daily...