A professional who selects and edits state, national, and international news items received by wire from press associations. Responsibilities include:

• Corrects errors of spelling and punctuation in telegraph copy.
• Deletes less important paragraphs, according to importance and amount of space available for story.
• Issues selected items to editor, news, with notations of desired length of story in accordance with predetermined space allotment.
• Monitors teleprinter machines for new leads on important news items received before press time of edition, and reserves space for copy on such items.
• May select news of local events of national or international interest, and prepare copy to be forwarded to central news associations by wire.
• May rewrite stories to include information of special interest to subscribers of publication.