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  • You have to warm to a theatre publicist who, having cut out six very large letters to spell HAMLET on the front of the building, realises they could just as easily spell THELMA, and arranges them accordingly on his office floor just as the critic of the Times is being ushered into his office to phone in a review to a copytaker.

    Tony Banfield obituary 2010

  • Fellow hacks concluded that the outspoken copytaker ought to get my job.

    Open door 2010

  • An odd thing: a couple of years ago I read a piece by a Guardian journalist about a legendary copytaker, as they were called, at the Telegraph.

    Thomas and Isolde Jessica 2007

  • Fellow hacks concluded that the outspoken copytaker ought to get my job.

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • I change a few words around, and I phone the copytaker (they still exist), and I read it down the phone to her.

    Life and style | guardian.co.uk 2009

  • I change a few words around, and I phone the copytaker (they still exist), and I read it down the phone to her.

    The Guardian World News 2009

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