Sentence examples for copy deadlines from inspiring English sources

Newspapers pulled copy deadlines forward to mid-afternoon yesterday in anticipation of further bad weather, which will slow their delivery trucks to a snail's pace overnight.

It was Kenneth Obank, the paper's chief sub editor (who had joined the paper in 1945 coming, like Astor had, from a stint on the Yorkshire Post) who made sure that the writers made their copy deadlines so that the compositors could output the pages in time.

It has since attracted over 6,800 members, though this correspondent's request for someone to provide an excuse to help extend his copy deadline did not produce a response.

It was enough for a space heater and lights, but not for the network router, providing your correspondent with a new favorite excuse for missing a copy deadline.In seriousness, it's a harrowing reminder of the challenges of a real Mars mission.

All would be forgiven and/or ignored as long as I filed clean copy on deadline.

And what skills - on the road, he phoned in copy to deadline without writing it out first; in the office, he was a wonder on the phone.

Out of school, editing copy under deadline, "already squeezed and breathless," she was fast discovering that life rarely conforms to our vision of how it should be.

There's also a gossipy diarist; a Puritan judge; a vaguely Marxian historian of Hollywood; a journalistic pro who can crank out copy on deadline; a yearning perfectionist; a fabulist; and a debunker of sentimental myths.

Misha's son, Alexander, regarded him with a mixture of "fascination, admiration and horror": he saw his dad sitting around the house in his pajamas much of the day, cranking out newspaper copy on deadline, before going out to attend a string of parties and returning home at 3 in the morning.

Newspaper people try to get everything right, but given that they are human beings writing and editing huge amounts of copy on unforgiving deadlines, often they don't.

Journalists produce copy within limited deadlines and compete fiercely for editorial and public attention.