The Society for Editing conference, editors cheered — and groaned — as the AP Stylebook announced one of its most anticipated ...

Once the unsung heroes of the newsroom, copy editors have been laid off in droves as media companies become leaner, meaner and riddled with typos. But amidst the collapse of the old journalism model ...

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.

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

There is no Pulitzer Prize for literature's copy editors — and essayist Roy Peter Clark thinks there should be. He reflects on an early life lesson on the importance of the craft. BRAND: Today is the ...

I work a part-time job that often requires “copy editing” information for general publication, much as I once did at The Daily Democrat. In decades past, I would use a “blue pencil” to edit stories ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

A couple of days ago, I received a desperate, all-caps text message from my younger sister asking for help with proofreading her First Big High School Essay. In all of my sisterly benevolence (and ...

NEW YORK —Michael Eugene Schrader, the longtime copy editor and cookbook reviewer for Nation’s Restaurant News, will be remembered by his friends and colleagues at the publication as a dedicated ...

For the more than a decade, when readers opened a copy of The Daily Sentinel, they looked directly at the work of Tess Furey. Her name wasn’t always there, but her design work, her skill at ...