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 ...

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.

During my editing days at the Los Angeles Times, in an effort to bring civility to the relationship between the City Desk and the Copy Desk, I asked a Copy Desk supervisor, Mike Castelvecchi, to join ...

College senior studying philosophy, politics, and economics from Towson, Md. She served as copy editor on the 140th Board of ...

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 ...

After you get trained as a copy editor at The Daily Californian, it becomes virtually impossible to stop copy editing everything and anything you read. It starts off innocently enough. You find ...