Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Both columns explained that recent layoffs and buyouts on the copy desk had resulted in a spike in the number of errors ...

A copy editor’s job is largely an invisible one. Over the past three years I’ve worked as a copy editor for Daily Bruin, I’ve spent a significant amount of time double-checking 20-years’ worth of ...

I like to describe my time at The Daily Campus as a constant case of being in the right place, at the right time — all the time. I first started working here my sophomore year as a copy editor ...

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.

In an era dominated by automated grammar checkers and AI writing assistants, the human element of communication is often ...

A: To be a copy editor at any newspaper you should first of all have good news judgment, know how to write, be detail-oriented, juggle, shift gears quickly, lead by example and negotiate with finesse.

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 ...

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, ...

While many from Washington to Massachusetts wonder what to do about same-sex marriage, a tiny corner of the Internet wages its own version of the debate. “I’m not even troubled all that much by ‘gay ...

Jeff Carlson copy edited the Pulitzer Prize-winning series, “The Failures Before the Fires,” among many other projects at the ...