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.

NEW YORK —Michael Eugene Schrader, the longtime copy editor and cookbook reviewer for Nation’s Restaurant News, will be remembered by his friends and colleagues at the publication as a dedicated ...

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.

A career in journalism was never on my radar. Activism – which is commonly perceived as incompatible with journalism – constituted a large part of my identity in high school. I attended marches, led ...

As a copy editor for the Collegiate Times (CT), I have been lurking behind the scenes and working with writers to produce stories we can all be proud of. I have edited hundreds of stories, reading and ...

Once the unsung heroes of the newsroom, copy editors have been laid off in droves as media companies become leaner, meaner and riddled with typos. But amidst the collapse of the old journalism model ...

There are about 500,000 words in the English language, twice that many if you include scientific terms. Each day, about 20,000 of those words are printed in The Forum. It's the job of the copy desk to ...

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, ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with fabled copy editor Benjamin Dreyer. He's retiring after three decades working with literary greats at Random House. Benjamin Dreyer has reached an inflection point in his ...