On my first day as a copy editor I opened mine to be greeted by a dead rat.
Toward the beginning of his career, CNN video copy editor James Dinan interned with the news department of a radio station in Newton, New Jersey.
JournalismJobs.com was founded in 1998 by Dan Rohn, a former copy editor and business writer with The Washington Post, editor with America Online, and Washington, D.
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.
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.
These parallels were the subject of an extraordinary December 2003 Insight Magazine article where the paraphrase of Lincoln's views was inadvertently transformed by a copy editor into a quote.
But most important is that a copy editor stands in for the reader, gingerly reshaping, clarifying and correcting things before the reader can see them and post an excoriating comment.
One copy editor on contract even went out of her way to point out that her duties were identical to those of an AOL News staffer who was recently laid off.
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The copy editor took 3 days to read and return the book, the graphic designer had the exact cover layout done in 5 days, and the formatter turned his Word doc into Kindle .
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Although it is anecdotal that there are more errors, the evidence is certainly there: At the American Copy Editors Society, Charles Apple blogs regularly about all those who need a copy editor.
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.
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.
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