Martin Wong, who works as a textbook editor with publisher McGraw-Hill, writes and copy-edits, smoothing out the prose of the magazine's stable of amateur writers.

CNN: Raw, Original and Truthful

Elam's career began in New York as a copy editor for Dow Jones Newswires before joining Bridge News where she helped coordinate seamless 24-hour news coverage among the organizations newsrooms worldwide.

CNN: About

As the House of Representatives tore apart Hank Paulson's construct to re-liquefy our banking system, the phrase "bailout" wasn't descriptive enough, just a copy editor's splash headline.

FORBES: Magazine Article

His interview answers often started confidently, with a rush of distant memories his report on the first integrated high-school dinner in Virginia, the name of his editor, the exact time he handed in his copy but foundered in tears when the words failed.

ECONOMIST: Tom DeBaggio