21. The Journalist's Toolbox - American Press Institute Beyond the Battle Survival Guide for Women Editors Design 2020 and more Reporting Techniques, Public Records, History, Ethics and Copy http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

22. Some Fundamental Rules And Approaches For Managing Copy Editors And even if you are telling a copy editor bad news about their Ask for informaland formal rewards for copy editors who shine—informal rewards, http://www.ibiblio.org/copyed/04knight_rinehart_management.htm

Some fundamental rules and approaches for managing copy editors I became Business copy desk chief almost four years after joining that desk in my first full-time job at the Washington Post. Only one editor had less seniority on the desk than I had, and I was suddenly in the position of managing people who had been my co-workers, including, in a couple of cases, people who were part-time editors at the same time I was a part-time editor. And I had been privately unkind about some facets of some of my colleagues’ performance when I was a rim editor and page designer. I was not new to slotting, but I was new to management responsibilities such as evaluations and hiring. After I became desk chief—first on an interim basis for three months, then permanently in January 1993, I was fortunate to receive some training—mostly from a class offered to all departments at the Post, and then at the American Press Institute’s weeklong seminar for news editors and copy chiefs. But much of what I have learned has come through trial and error. I’d like to emphasize the second part of that. Some of the reminders I’m going to offer here are things I wish I had done when becoming a desk chief and when I moved to the National desk as copy chief, and some are things I need to be better at myself, even in my third copy chief’s job, in Editorial. I’m trying to offer a portrait of an ideal manager, as opposed to myself. – Vince Rinehart Here are 20 general lessons that I think apply broadly.

23. E-resources Editors and copy editors should check out Copy Editing first. copy editorsaren t required to check all commonly known quotes, but you have every http://www.nyu.edu/classes/copyXediting/eresources.html

Editing Workshop, G54.1123, Spring 2005 Sonia Jaffe Robbins home syllabus weekly assignments ... site map E-RESOURCES FOR COPY EDITORS (a work in progress) 2. Reference Facts Words Journalism and media Current events ... Word Fun If you have suggestions for this list, send them to me. Students in the Editing Workshop, G54.1123, will receive extra credit for their suggestions. Send a description of what you've found, with the URL, to the class mailing list/forum, copyxediting. We'll check it out and discuss online how useful the resource is. ADDED JANUARY 2005 Al-Jazeera Back to Iraq BeliefNet Iraq and U.S. conflict ... Who's Alive and Who's Dead ADDED JANUARY 2004 100 Most Often Misspelled Words in English American Biz Jargon Army units: size and commanders Conversions Online ... More information about the various versions of the FAQ There are at least three versions of the FAQ, including supplements, for this longstanding newsgroup, which discusses all facets of the English language , highlights the most frequently asked grammar, punctuation, pronunciation, and spelling questions; usage disputes; word and phrase origins; and lists recommended dictionaries, grammars, usage, as well as online works and related newsgroups. The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation Jane Straus is a consultant and teacher of grammar and good writing to organizations, corporations, and other groups. This site has short, easily remembered

24. Writers And Editors copy editors mostly review and edit a reporter’s copy for accuracy, content, grammar, These assistants, such as copy editors and production assistants, http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos089.htm

Skip Navigation Links Latest Numbers U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook www.bls.gov OOH Search/A-Z Index BLS Home Get Detailed Statistics ... Find It! In DOL Printer-friendly version ( HTML PDF Writers and Editors Nature of the Work Working Conditions Employment Training, Other Qualifications, and Advancement ... Sources of Additional Information Significant Points Most jobs in this occupation require a college degree in communications, journalism, or English, although a degree in a technical subject may be useful for technical-writing positions. The outlook for most writing and editing jobs is expected to be competitive, because many people with writing or journalism training are attracted to the occupation. Online publications and services are growing in number and sophistication, spurring the demand for writers and editors, especially those with Web experience. Nature of the Work About this section Back to Top Communicating through the written word, writers and editors generally fall into one of three categories. Writers and authors develop original fiction and nonfiction for books, magazines, trade journals, online publications, company newsletters, radio and television broadcasts, motion pictures, and advertisements. (

25. Testy Copy Editors Message board members' articles on topics related to journalism and newspaper editing. http://testycopyeditors.org/xmlsrv/rss2.php?blog=2

26. Poynter Online - In Search Of The Perfect Copy Editor 10 Copy Editor Traits That To be a copy editor is to tackle one of the toughest and sometimes mostthankless - jobs While it s great to find technically inclined copy editors, http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=5438

27. Poynter Online - Personal Responsibility For Copy Editors Anne Glover, Assistant Managing Editor/Copy Desks, St. Petersburg Times Learn who your fellow copy editors are. Find out who the people are who have http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=5462

28. Windhaven Press: Treatise On Publishing Why copy editors Are Necessary A Small Treatise on the Publishing World. I dlike to take a moment to explain just what copy editors in the fiction field http://www.windhaven.com/copyedit.htm

Why Copy Editors Are Necessary: A Small Treatise on the Publishing World I'd like to take a moment to explain just what copy editors in the fiction field do, with the perspective of almost 20 years in the field, having been a developmental editor, acquiring editor, copy editor, and managing (production) editor over time. (An even better question is, who is left to develop the manuscript to its full potential in the first place? Nowadays? ... often a freelance developmental editor. (NB: Copy editors in other fields, such as newspapers and magazines, traditionally work more directly with the copy that has been fully developed and checked by the editor/writer. Part of this accounts for, I believe, the dim view some people have taken of copy editors: they believe all that they do is check for grammar and impose spelling and rules upon prose ... a pleasant but somewhat anal-retentive task. Book copy editors do a far wider job in 99% of the cases, due to the reasons noted above.) (Q: Does anal retentive have a hyphen? A: If you know the answer, then you may be a good copy editor. If you've heard this joke before, undoubtedly you

29. Web Training For Copy Editors Copy editor reference links for newspaper style, spelling, grammar, punctuationand editing help. http://www.freep.com/jobspage/academy/copyhelp.htm

Web resources for copy editors There's loads to learn on the Web, and it should be no surprise that there's plenty for copy editors, who often become the Web-savviest people at their newspapers. A JobsPage sampling of Web resources for copy editors finds four flavors: Institutions , such as the Poynter Institute and the American Press Institute, that offer some of their traditional, high-quality fare in a new package. Entrepreneurs , generally individuals, posting appetizers that they hope will tempt you to order from their menus. Individuals . You know who these folks are! They work on copy desks everywhere. (One could be sitting right next to you.) They throw their stuff onto the Web because they care and because they can, not because they expect to make any money. This is where some of the best fun is. Academia . We're seeing more and more J-profs post their material on the Web. Take a look. It's not exactly distance learning. It can be more like lurking in the back of the classroom. INSTITUTIONS Poynter's index of articles about copy editors and copy editing gives you a ton of information from rewards and recognition to scheduling and job rotation. You'll find article from the Poynter Institute for Media Studies and ASNE movers and shakers Merv Aubespin, Gene Foreman and Bill Connolly.

30. META NAME= Description CONTENT= This JobsPage Article Talks Saviors eight reporters, six top editors, but only two copy editors. Wordsmithsix reporters, seven top editors, but just three copy editors. http://www.freep.com/jobspage/academy/synonym.htm

Copy editors: Robots, bastards or saviors? By JOE GRIMM Recruiting and development editor Detroit Free Press Quick: Give me a synonym for copy editor. Approximately 40 editors from the United States and Canada who attended an American Press Institute workshop for News Editors and Copy Desk Chiefs were asked to find synonyms from three copy editors at their papers, three reporters and three top editors. The results they sent me though terribly unscientific were interesting. Here is a rundown on a few of the names that came back: TOP EDITORS REPORTERS COPY EDITORS Defense Censor Redactor Gatekeeper Whipcracker Servant Sculptor Surgeon Serf Savior Faultfinder Clarifier Designer Late-night caller Proofreader Unappreciated Nudge Nitpicker Watchdog Wordsmith Robot Rescue squad Copy cleaner Word nerd Succinct Bastard Coach Reader advocate Safety net Garbageman Improver Backstop Backstop Copy grunt Drudge Machine Massager Word-tron Know-it-all Paginator Abused Masseur Producer Nitpicker Grunt Processor God Designer The list fooled me. When I did this exercise with a similar group at API five years ago, a lot of animals came running back: drone, scapegoat, workhorse, junkyard dog, bastard and watchdog. Bastard and watchdog still made the lists, but the other animals disappeared. The new pattern went more like this: machine, robot, word-tron, spellchecker, technocrat and mechanic.

31. Language Log: More Timewasting Garbage, Another Copy-editing Moron Instead of you can only walk through a stream once, the copy editor prefers you The copy editors are enforcing a rule which has no support at all in the http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000918.html

Language Log Main May 17, 2004 More timewasting garbage, another copy-editing moron Mark Pilgrim is nearly done with his (online) python programming book Dive Into Python , but is currently being subjected to that bane of the author's life, the copy editing phase. He says: Dive into Python I use have to when I mean need to I misplace the word only . Instead of you can only walk through a stream once, the copy editor prefers you can walk through a stream only once. I use lots when I mean a lot I use which when I mean that I overuse footnotes to be cute. This is a bad habit I picked up from the interactive fiction version of and the infamous footnote 12. I use like when I mean such as I use then immediately after a comma, when I mean and then I use note when I mean notice , and vice-versa. I use we when I mean you And so forth. Apparently we You will be working through this example; I will be in the Bahamas drinking my royalty check. Well, I don't know who is paying that copy editor, but if she were working for me she would be toast, because every single thing about English grammar here is wrong. There are some style suggestions included: don't overuse footnotes, don't be too liberal with the rather literary device of the semicolon. On things like this, advice from an opinionated reader or a publisher with style guidelines can be helpful. I won't say anything about them. And the last point is also about style, though I think the style advice is dead wrong: inviting the reader into your deliberations and saying

32. Language Log: Jail Copy Editors For The Right Reasons I m all in favor of sending copy editors to jail; but I think it should be fortheir actual practices changing which to that in a bid to impose the http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000542.html

Language Log Main March 04, 2004 Jail copy editors for the right reasons The news that copy-editing a paper before it appears in a journal may be a criminal offense if they come from one of the Bad Guy countries ( further details here ) is perhaps the most astonishing I have encountered in months (despite a ready flow of often astounding news, both on Language Log and elsewhere). I'm all in favor of sending copy editors to jail; but I think it should be for their actual practices: changing which to that in a bid to impose the (completely mythical) generalization that which is not used in what The Cambridge Grammar calls integrated relatives (the kind without the commas); altering the position of adjuncts in phrases like willing to at least consider it because of a belief in the (again, completely mythical) view that there something called an "infinitive" in English and it should not be "split"; and so on. I've spent too much time struggling (after editorial acceptance) for the right to use grammatical sentences in my own native language, battling against the enforcement of arbitrary cryptogrammatical dogmata. Send these which -hunters and adjunct-shifters to jail for a few months, by all means. Put them in solitary on a bread and water diet. Take away their red pencils. But not because the work they are fiddling with is by an author who happens to have the misfortune to live in Iran.

33. Copy Editing - American Press Institute A handy quickreference, fact-checking site for copy editors. Find out if acelebrity is dead or alive. Copy Editing Resources http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/content/3696.cfm

Registration Policies API Fellowships Featured discussion leaders ... Design 2020 NewsFuture, published by The Media Center focuses on critical issues and trends in online and multi-platform publishing. Roundtable offers collections of insights and ideas from the American Press Institute. Be the first to know about the newest seminars and training opportunities from API. Receive the CyberJournalist Report, a monthly newsletter packed with tips, headlines and great work. The newsletter features search tips, new resources and other news and notes of interest to the journalism, research, academic and online communities. SEMINARS ARTICLES DISCUSSION LEADERS TAILORED PROGRAMS ... HOME SEARCH API Home The API Homepage The Journalist's Toolbox Registration policies ... Featured discussion leaders Have You Moved? Send us an update! Join our mailing list! Email: Coming to API Discussion Leaders John Davidson Creative Eye Consulting Appearing at: Photo Department Leadership: Maximizing the Power of Pictures Seminar Schedule Check the complete schedule of American Press Institute seminars here.

34. Copy Editors: Act As The Readers' Advocate - American Press Institute News industry executives and managers from around the world come to API s renownedseminars to share their expertise and learn from one another s http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/content/p3226_c1388.cfm

Registration Policies API Fellowships Featured discussion leaders ... Design 2020 NewsFuture, published by The Media Center focuses on critical issues and trends in online and multi-platform publishing. Roundtable offers collections of insights and ideas from the American Press Institute. Be the first to know about the newest seminars and training opportunities from API. Receive the CyberJournalist Report, a monthly newsletter packed with tips, headlines and great work. The newsletter features search tips, new resources and other news and notes of interest to the journalism, research, academic and online communities. SEMINARS ARTICLES DISCUSSION LEADERS TAILORED PROGRAMS ... HOME SEARCH API Home Articles Topics The API Experience ... Writing and Editing Have You Moved? Send us an update! Join our mailing list! Email: Coming to API Discussion Leaders Alex Cruden Chief Editor of the Copy Desks, Detroit Free Press Appearing at: Young Adult Readership: Connecting With the Millennial Market Seminar Schedule Check the complete schedule of American Press Institute seminars here. Find Seminars Select A Topic Browse All Seminars Advertising Circulation General / Cross-Functional Marketing Newsroom Media Center Special Weekly Publications New Leadership Simulation Readership Business Journalism Early-bird Deadlines Register soon for early-bird savings: Business Editors: Leadership Strategies for Better Business Coverage Young Adult Readership: Connecting With the Millennial Market Design for Contemporary Newspapers Single Copy: Reaching the Many Markets of One Copy editors: act as the readers' advocate

35. PJNet Today: Will Weblogs Make Copy Editors Obsolete? In March he will be presenting a panel at the American copy editors Society Witt How do you anticipate the copy editors at your conference will react http://pjnet.org/weblogs/pjnettoday/archives/000128.html

PJNet Today A Public Journalism Network Weblog by Leonard Witt and Colleagues « Japan Media Review Reprints PJNet Blog Main Is Media's Role as Gatekeeper Threatened? » February 23, 2004 Will Weblogs Make Copy Editors Obsolete? Tom Mangan’s key quote: “Corporate execs would love to be told, "look at blogs, they're all unedited and people love them. Think how much more money we'd make if we weren't paying all these editors." Tom Mangan is a features desk copy editor at the San Jose Mercury News and is well known in journalism blogging circles for Prints the Chaff , his weblog for newspaper editors. In March he will be presenting a panel at the American Copy Editors Society (ACES) conference entitled “ The Future Doesn’t Need Us: Weblogs and the End of Editing as We’ve Known It” It’s an intriguing title. Let’s find out what it means in this Leonard Witt Instant Messenger Interview. Leonard Witt: Hi, Tom. First I want to tell you I love your weblog Prints the Chaff. But let’s get into it. What do you mean when you say: The Future Doesn’t Need Us: Weblogs and the End of Editing as We’ve Known It?”

36. Testy Copy Editors Message board geared toward newspaper copy editing. http://testycopyeditors.org

Testy Copy Editors Newspaper copy editors and their fans talk shop. 03:31:17 am, Categories: Articles , 521 words Standards By Mary Ellen Slayter The bloggers are coming! The bloggers are coming! And it looks like they all dropped their dictionaries. Should copy editors pick them up? From what I've seen purporting to be "citizen journalism" online, I sure hope so. Copy editing is at the heart of the discipline of verification that separates journalism from mere gossip, and yet I keep hearing that we're just a bunch of control freaks out to ruin the party. Far from bringing about the death of the blogosphere, thorough editing is what can save it from collapsing into inflammatory gibberish and what will make it possible for mainstream media companies to incorporate the best features of blogging into their brands. But first we have to stop acting like blogs are different from any other "content delivery method," which the bloggers love reminding us that our boring old newspapers are after all. Blogs are not any different. Entertainment is one thing, but online journalism still relies on the same principles of accuracy, fairness and clarity that we strive for every day in the newspaper. Copy editors are a crucial part of that in print, and they will become more so online as the medium matures. Second, we have to stop hiding behind language about liability. It doesn't matter if the courts rule that a blogger is responsible for his words, not the media company that publishes them. That is not a question of liability. It's one of credibility, our most valuable commodity. Regardless of what the fine print says, if your newspaper is hosting an amateur blog filled with libelous comments,horrid writing, unverified rumors and mundane nonsense, that content will be associated with your masthead, and it will damage it.

37. PJNet Today: When Copy Editors Meet, What Do They Talk About? Today ACES, the American copy editors Society, meets in Houston. I have beenmonitoring Mangan s website to see what copy editors talk about. http://pjnet.org/weblogs/pjnettoday/archives/000152.html

PJNet Today A Public Journalism Network Weblog by Leonard Witt and Colleagues « Hip Hop and Leonard's IM Interviews Main March 18, 2004 When Copy Editors Meet, What Do They Talk About? A while back I did an IM Interview with blogger and copy editor supreme Tom Mangan. Today ACES, the American Copy Editors Society, meets in Houston. I have been monitoring Mangan's website to see what copy editors talk about. So far we have learned about the high food prices in Houston. But keep watching Mangan and the ACES site for more information. It is sure to be coming. Posted by Leonard Witt at March 18, 2004 10:57 AM Comments Post a comment Thanks for signing in, document.write(commenter_name); . Now you can comment. ( sign out (If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.) URL: Remember me? Yes No Comments:

38. Copy Editors Being a copy editor means paying close attention to differences like these.copy editors review text to ensure it is easy to understand and follows the http://www.collegeboard.com/csearch/majors_careers/profiles/careers/105227.html

@import "/common/shared/css/p3_import.css"; @import "/common/student/css/import.css"; Jump to page content help store Site Colleges students parents educators CollegeBoard.com ... Pay for College Find a College Where to Start Campus Life College Visits Tools College Search Compare Colleges Sign Up My Organizer Create a free account. User Name: Password: Help Home Find a College Profiles Career: Copy Editors Print Full Article Email Article Education You will need to earn a bachelor's degree to work in this field. Completing graduate work will make you more competitive in the job market. Related Majors Comparative Literature Creative Writing English Journalism ... Mass Communications Related Careers Copywriters Editors News Analysts, Reporters, and Correspondents Public Relations Specialists ... Writers Did You Know? In some jobs, you may take on such duties as conducting research and checking facts for writers. Career: Copy Editors Copy editors also rewrite text or suggest changes, such as reordering paragraphs, to make the writing stronger. On top of all that, they correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation errors. Copy editors review text to make sure that it is free of errors and is clearly written. They also ensure that writing follows the publisher's style and editorial policy.

39. Copy-Editing Corner For copy editors to gather and discuss topics. http://copyeditingcorner.blogspot.com/

@import url("http://www.blogger.com/css/blog_controls.css"); @import url("http://www.blogger.com/dyn-css/authorization.css?blogID=6821965"); @import url(http://www.blogger.com/css/navbar/main.css); @import url(http://www.blogger.com/css/navbar/3.css); Notify Blogger about objectionable content. What does this mean? BlogThis! Copy-Editing Corner A language-loving, book-reading, copy-editing, eclectic-music-listening, hard-working student. That's me, and this is my blog. I hope you enjoy this little corner of the Web I like to call my own. Friday, August 12, 2005 Should your paper use brackets? On the ACES discussion board there has been some postings about the difference between using parenthesis and brackets to clarify information in quotes. The reasoning behind the AP style for parenthesis is one that has to do with technology over anything else the brackets cannot be sent over the news wire. From the AP Stylebook: brackets [ ] They cannot be transmitted over news wires. Use parentheses or recast the material. Other references (notably The Chicago Manual of Style and Words Into Type) make it clear than brackets should be used.

40. Copy Editors Are Amazing (by Jeremy Zawodny) copy editors Are Amazing. Some random bits scribbled by Jeremy Zawodny Today I received a copy of the copy editor s notes so that I could see every http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/001670.html

Copy Editors Are Amazing Some random bits scribbled by Jeremy Zawodny I spent a fair chunk of time this weekend going over the latest draft of the book . The figures are now in it, the layout is mostly done, and the copy editor has made a lot of changes to it. Those changes are often quite subtle but have a very obvious effect: they make the text readable. It's not that what we turned in wasn't readable, but compared to what we got back from the copy editor, it's like night and day. I was reading chapter 3 last night when I realized "Hey, this stuff seems pretty well written... Did *we* do that?" It really flows now. Today I received a copy of the copy editor's notes so that I could see every change that she recommended. There are tons of them. On every page. I expected it. But still, as I've looked over a few of the pages, I can't help but to think "Damn, she's good!" Thank you, Leanne Soylemez. In a few more days, we'll have our final feedback in to O'Reilly. When they send it to be printed, I'll post a picture of the "we finally got the book done" gift I'm buying myself. I had originally planned to get a new laptop, but that's just not gonna happen... edit Comments On or around March 1, 2004 02:09 PM

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