This person will also help plan our weekly and long-term coverage. 538 is seeking a meticulous and efficient Senior Copy Editor to edit articles and facilitate the flow of copy through the newsroom.

Q: I am currently a general assignment reporter for two weekly community newspapers. I will have been here 21 months, and I’m ready to move on. I had originally intended to move elsewhere for my next ...

Welcome to the Copy Shop – the platform for members of Daily Bruin Copy to rant about the Oxford comma, discuss sensitivity in mass media and attempt to generally demystify the mind-boggling and ...

Though their voices are seldom heard and their names are often unknown, their touch is everywhere. Copy editors, who work behind the scenes after nearly everyone else has gone for the day, are ...

Every now and then, people ask me whether I actually enjoy my job. They point out that I spend hours at The Michigan Daily every week making others look better and ask me if, deep down, I’d rather ...

The year was 1997. ACES: The Society for Editing — formerly known as the American Copy Editors Society — was founded as a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting excellence in copy editing.

ProPublica announced Wednesday that Colleen Barry is joining the newsroom as a copy editor. She will work in tandem with the assistant managing editor for standards, Diego Sorbara, to maintain the ...

Summit Daily News is hiring freelance copy editors to assist in the newsroom. Preferred qualifications include a degree in journalism, communications, English or a related field and prior newspaper ...

A copy editor should flag a story like this for news editors and upper management to revisit. Copy editors also try to identify biases relating to race and gender that can appear in reporting. A ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. You may come across the occasional writer who will claim (wrongly) that they don’t need an editor, but you will ...

It was no surprise when newspapers across the country started culling their copy editing staff. After all, newsroom layoffs in the 21st century aren’t exactly breaking news. For some papers, however, ...