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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...

War on the Rocks is seeking to hire two to four paid, part-time copy editors to work remotely for about five to 10 hours a week. Our copy editors are assigned to be “on call” during specific portions ...