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Everyone Needs an Editor
3 min · · by Gabrielle C. Durham Have you ever been asked to donate to the worthy cause of sending the Lady Loins to the state semi-finals? I have, and I think I gave a couple bucks because of the doubtlessly… · Shared by 5, including Jane
The Chronicle of Higher Education
For Want of a Copy Editor the Sense Was Lost
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The Guardian
Beyond cuts: the many roles of a writer's editor
5 min · · Nell Frizzell: Novelist Eleanor Catton and her editor Max Porter's alliance shows how much more than wielding a blade goes into this relationship · Shared by 6, including Jane
The Hard Times
Website Getting on Just Fine After Laying of Copyeditor
3 min · · Popular review website GearJam.com “said goood bye to there steemed copyeditor” Devin Warren because of falling ad revenue. · Shared by 5, including Jane
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Blessed Are teh Copy Editors
3 min · · Copy editors AWOL? The Washington Post was embarrassed this year when it placed the wrong gender symbol on Page One of its Express. In a recent Lingua Franca post, I had reason to mention Rogue… · Shared by 9, including Jane, Esther Schindler
Poynter
By dismantling its copy desk, The New York Times is making a mistake that’s been made before
6 min · · Two decades ago, I wrote a critical essay titled “Goodbye Copy Desks, Hello Trouble.” What prompted that Newspaper Research Journal piece was a brief experiment in eliminating free-standing copy de… · Shared by 9, including Jane, Liv 😷
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Copy Editors Are OCD. Thank Goodness.
3 min · · Jorge Luis Borges: largely unedited (AP Photo/Eduardo Di Baia) “The universe needs more good editors,” Kurt Vonnegut wrote in a letter to his students. He added, “God knows.” Vonnegut was right. Last… · Shared by 7, including Jane