A professional who coordinates activities of workers engaged in setting of copy into type. Respnsibilities include:

• Examines, apportions, and distributes editorial and classified advertising copy to compositors; linotype operators; or monotype-keyboard operators.
• Examines copy to determine time and date for publication, type style, and size specified for headings and body.
• Determines size of sections to be cut and distributed, according to time available for setting type.
• Cuts copy into sections, marks sections with type size if cuts are to be used, and distributes to composing room.
• May mark sections to aid in assembling type and cuts in galley.