Copyboy

Italian translation: fattorino (di redazione)

06:46 Jan 19, 2021
English to Italian translations [Non-PRO]
Art/Literary - Printing & Publishing / Copyboy
English term or phrase: Copyboy
Come chiamereste il ragazzo che negli anni 50 in America vendeva i giornali in mezzo alla strada? Il termine inglese è "copyboy".

grazie
Teresa Marrone
United Kingdom
Local time: 18:19
Italian translation:fattorino (di redazione)
Explanation:
Copyboy definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionarywww.collinsdictionary.com › copy...
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Copyboy definition: a boy employed by a newspaper or broadcast news office to carry copy and run errands


Perché corre Sammy? | Budd Schulberg | sconto 5% - Unilibrowww.unilibro.it › schulberg-budd
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... nel mondo dei media da fattorino di redazione a produttore hollywoodiano. ... runs, his ascent in the world of media from copyboy to Hollywood producer.

il ragazzo del watergate - la Repubblica.itricerca.repubblica.it › 2006/08/21· Diese Seite übersetzen
Si era innamorato del giornalismo a sedici anni, entrando nella redazione del Washington Star come "copyboy" - poco più che un fattorino.

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Note added at 32 mins (2021-01-19 07:18:55 GMT)
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non consegna i giornali!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy_boy
A copy boy is a typically young and junior worker on a newspaper. The job involves taking typed stories from one section of a newspaper to another. According to Bruce Guthrie, the former editor-in-chief of the Herald Sun who began work there as a copy boy in 1972:

Reporters typed their stories on slips of butcher's paper...then a copy boy ran the story into the neighbouring subs' [sub-editor's] room, hence the cry of 'copy'. Each slip of the story had about six carbon copies...stapled together and it was the job of the copy boy - or girl - to separate the original and run it to the subs, and then separate the carbons for distribution.[1]

With the advent of new publishing and printing technology the position is now almost extinct, but in the first two decades after World War II, most editors of medium and large newspapers in the US still considered their copy boys indispensable to "getting the paper out."
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2strillone
Daniela B.Dunoyer
3 +2fattorino (di redazione)
AdamiAkaPataflo
4Copyboy, ragazzo che consegna i giornali
Cristian Di Cola


  

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copyboy
fattorino (di redazione)


Explanation:
Copyboy definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionarywww.collinsdictionary.com › copy...
Diese Seite übersetzen
Copyboy definition: a boy employed by a newspaper or broadcast news office to carry copy and run errands


Perché corre Sammy? | Budd Schulberg | sconto 5% - Unilibrowww.unilibro.it › schulberg-budd
Diese Seite übersetzen
... nel mondo dei media da fattorino di redazione a produttore hollywoodiano. ... runs, his ascent in the world of media from copyboy to Hollywood producer.

il ragazzo del watergate - la Repubblica.itricerca.repubblica.it › 2006/08/21· Diese Seite übersetzen
Si era innamorato del giornalismo a sedici anni, entrando nella redazione del Washington Star come "copyboy" - poco più che un fattorino.

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Note added at 32 mins (2021-01-19 07:18:55 GMT)
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non consegna i giornali!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy_boy
A copy boy is a typically young and junior worker on a newspaper. The job involves taking typed stories from one section of a newspaper to another. According to Bruce Guthrie, the former editor-in-chief of the Herald Sun who began work there as a copy boy in 1972:

Reporters typed their stories on slips of butcher's paper...then a copy boy ran the story into the neighbouring subs' [sub-editor's] room, hence the cry of 'copy'. Each slip of the story had about six carbon copies...stapled together and it was the job of the copy boy - or girl - to separate the original and run it to the subs, and then separate the carbons for distribution.[1]

With the advent of new publishing and printing technology the position is now almost extinct, but in the first two decades after World War II, most editors of medium and large newspapers in the US still considered their copy boys indispensable to "getting the paper out."

AdamiAkaPataflo
Germany
Local time: 19:19
Native speaker of: Italian
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Asker: Grazie. Avevo pensato anch'io a fattorino ma mi dava più l'idea di chi consegna i giornali e basta. Forse già aggiungendo "di redazione" può dare l'idea di chi ha anche altre mansioni. Grazie tante e buona giornata


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  dandamesh: potrebbe essere paragonabile all’attuale “commesso di redazione” http://www.areweb.it/old/contratto/contratto90_allegato_b.ht...
38 mins
  -> ma esiste ancora, questa figura...? grazie! :-)

agree  martini
2 hrs
  -> grazie! :-))
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
copyboy
strillone


Explanation:
Mi sembra più adatto

"strillone: in passato, chi vendeva i giornali per le strade mediante strillonaggio (venditore ambulante di giornali)"

https://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/strillone

Daniela B.Dunoyer
France
Local time: 19:19
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench, Native in ItalianItalian

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Cinzia Simona Minniti
6 hrs
  -> Grazie!

agree  Silvia Romano
1 day 1 hr
  -> Grazie:)
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
copyboy
Copyboy, ragazzo che consegna i giornali


Explanation:
Salve,

Ammetto che il termine e' interessante e non semplice.

Secondo me il piu' appropriato potrebbe essere: giornalaio a domicilio o piu' semplicemente il ragazzo che consegna i giornali.

Ho pensato anche io a fattorino, ma tale professione non e' solo connessa alla consegna di giornali.

Potrebbe anche usare il termine copyboy ammesso che dal contesto si intuisca che il ragazzo consegni giornali.

Saluti,
Cristian

Example sentence(s):
  • Andy worked at a brokerage firm, E.F. Hutton, and I worked at the Wall Street Journal as a copyboy.
  • Andy ha lavorato presso una ditta di intermediazione, E.F. Hutton, e ho lavorato al Wall Street Journal come copyboy.

    https://context.reverso.net/traduzione/inglese-italiano/copyboy
Cristian Di Cola
Poland
Local time: 19:19
Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian
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