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.

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. You may come across the occasional writer who will claim (wrongly) that they don’t need an editor, but you will ...

Copy Editing, Proofreading and Content Writing, each has its own purpose or function. They are essential to focus on the ...

Last night, while his seersucker cooled on the ironing board, Copy-Editing the Culture poured himself a glass of cold seltzer and settled into the movie pages. To do so, as this column has noted in ...

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.

For those in the business of words, copy editors are considered the “safety nets,” the meticulous proofreaders who catch everything from spelling mistakes to ...

The Times’s standards editor, Philip B. Corbett, invites readers to correct grammatical errors in recent New York Times articles. This is our second quiz; you can find the first one here. By popular ...

The Times’s standards editor, Philip B. Corbett, invites readers to correct grammatical errors in recent New York Times articles. You can take previous quizzes here ...