
Or is that "copy-editor"? A friend sent me the link to Charles McGrath's column in today's New York Times and I pass it along to you. It was accompanied by Ellen Lupton's graphic, left.
Years ago, copy editors worked at large U-shaped tables. The chief editor's desk, in the opening of the "U," was "the slot." Copy went from rim editors to a slot editor for a final read. Rimmers proudly called themselves rimrats.
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