Once, The Daily Argus had fact-checkers, copy editors, legal advisers.
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It's a practice Times copy editors have mastered in many ways.
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Editors and copy editors, too: the scrupulous sensibilities behind the outpouring.
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Now, read it one more time: Pay your copy editors. pic.twitter.
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Many of our copy editors will remain in all our departments.
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What are the steps in the editorial process without copy editors?
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Copy editors here also write the headlines, though that is already changing.
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In a world where we can barely afford to pay copy editors.
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Where, indeed, are the copy editors at his generally excellent publisher, Little, Brown?
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Spicer has not been well served by the book's fact checkers and copy editors.
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Copy editors and team leads would also oversee and approve the choices being made.
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Copy editors at The Times were bedeviled in 1952 by the emergence of Gen.
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Its pyramidal structure of correspondents, copy editors, moderators, and editors stretches across 193 countries.
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At the time, he said, there were about three dozen indexers and copy editors.
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Many of the people who read copy at The Times are former copy editors.
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The New York Times has proposed halving the number of copy editors it employs, a move that this week drew a stinging rebuke from copy editors in a letter to the paper's management — and a walkout that was supported by other editorial staff.
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Our copy editors knew to check any change with Charles because he cared about every word.
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He avoids semi-colons and shifts indiscriminately to the present tense—"which drives copy editors crazy".
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It may be time for the Trump administration to hire a couple of copy editors, STAT.
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The "Chicago Manual of Style", in its 17th edition, is a bible for American copy editors.
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A. I'm always grateful for input from the copy editors because they're so smart and talented.
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The restructuring would eliminate the stand-alone copy desk, which includes more than 100 copy editors.
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In honor of all the copy editors in the world everywhere, let's break this tweet down!
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Special shoutout to all the copy editors who have made me look smart over the years.
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And, yes, some copy editors have grabbed hold of the training and are learning new skills.
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The copy editors could only edit so many risqué jokes out of my column every day.
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That's why, much to the consternation of my copy editors, I have started using hashtags like #TodayILearned and #NowIKnow.
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This paper is the final version that the editors, writers, and copy editors sign off on to be printed.
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Among copy editors and backfielders, the sentiments run from anxiety about their future to resentment over their perceived worth.
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When done well, punctuation almost disappears into the background, leaving the reader (copy editors aside) to focus on the words.
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If your stories lag in grammar, punctuation and style, is there a plan in place to bring copy editors back?
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Editors – and yes, that especially means copy editors — save reporters and The Times every day from countless errors, large and small.
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In the letter the copy editors said they had been compared with "dogs urinating on fire hydrants when we edited stories".
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Freelance copy editors are often the final set of eyes on blog posts, web content, and books before they get published.
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It was a different newsroom then — copy editors were all much older than me, closer to my parents' generation than mine.
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Copy editors are working on the October and November monthly supplements, the October-to-December quarterly and the 33,900-page annual.
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One of my copy editors asked if we could give him a nickname, because it was awkward to keep saying the baby.
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This was a task taken on by many New York Times employees over the years, a lot of copy editors among them.
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The hyper-media era needs many things, from responsible tech billionaires, to editors—and, God knows, copy-editors, that marvelous, dying breed.
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As I recall, the copy editors went to town on factual and grammatical errors, but left what Jefferson called errors of opinion.
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Editor: Eliza BarclayGraphics: Javier Zarracina Copy editors: Tim Williams and Bridgett HenwoodSpecial thanks: Mohsin Ali and Puru Panchal for their research assistance
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"So no one except he and a couple of copy editors ever read the slam," he recalled in an email on Tuesday.
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Of course, it falls most heavily on the copy editors who were told they do not have a future at The Times.
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Was it ever considered by the leadership at the NYTimes to simply train the current copy editors on video and web design?
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As copy editors, we know there are certain names that no matter how many times you see them, you have to triple-check.
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Most journalists don't have control over the headlines of their stories, but this isn't a communications mistake Chipotle can blame on copy editors.
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Facebook enlisted a set of 20-somethings as curators, copy editors and team leads, charged with sifting through the material the algorithms unearthed.
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CREDITSEditor: Jessica Machado Visuals editor: Kainaz AmariaDesigners: Amanda Northrop Copy editors: Tanya Pai and Tim WilliamsCover designer and graphics: Javier ZarracinaAdditional reporting: Adria Malcolm
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While we no longer have a separate copy-desk operation, the majority of our copy editors are still on staff, and still editing copy.
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"Editors — and yes, that especially means copy editors — save reporters and The Times every day from countless errors, large and small," the reporters wrote.
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The New York brand is built upon the hard work of editors, writers, fact checkers, copy editors, photo editors, designers, producers, and social-media editors.
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There is this crazy final document, with all the notes of the American editor, the British editor, their respective copy editors, Natasha's, and my own.
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The evening is a huge collaborative effort, involving not only reporters, copy editors, and layout and photo editors but the top brass of the newsroom.
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Still, even without a direct editor, Rosenthal said, copy editors could flag major concerns with a piece to him or a deputy editorial page editor.
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This week, copy editors sent an open letter to the newsroom's top management, raising concerns about the effect of cuts on the quality of coverage.
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Last week, copy editors sent an open letter to the newsroom's top management, raising concerns about the effect of cuts on the quality of coverage.
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Has the NYT done any comprehensive statistical analysis of work performed by copy editors before making the decision to eliminate a stand-alone copy desk?
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Linguists and copy editors look at how the punctuation has adapted across history, literature, and internetspeak in this week's episode of Explained, now on Netflix.
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When another woman asked for clarification on guidelines because copy editors were giving her conflicting guidance, she was told to "stop pitting people against one another".
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" Also, if you make a mistake, assume that tens of thousands of people will see it — with some wondering, "What happened to all the copy editors?
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It also can vary greatly, they say, as to how closely columnists work with research assistants on fact-checking and with copy editors prior to publication.
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Copy editors and reporters sent angry letters to newsroom leaders, and hundreds of Times employees staged a protest last month outside the company's headquarters in Manhattan.
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According to one account, there was an audible gasp at the meeting of the American Copy Editors' Society when AP announced that it was abandoning the "rule".
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I've also had a few regular copy editors – Alan Mattingly, Phil Coffin, Kayne Rogers, Mike Richard and (for the longest period, by far) the great Eric Nagourney.
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Also, any English teachers, writers, failed writers, editors, or copy editors you may know: there is a recurring joke about adverb usage that they will especially appreciate.
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The New York Times' editorial staff gave us all a solid reminder Thursday afternoon that copy editors are the backbone of the media outlets we all depend on.
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They added that copy editors are "the immune system of this newspaper, the group that protects the institution from profoundly embarrassing errors, not to mention potentially actionable ones".
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Sketched on inexpensive paper, marked with innumerable notes and instructions for the copy editors of newspapers, Chittaprosad's sketches have only been considered to be historical art in retrospect.
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DeWitt has spoken regularly about her epic run-ins with copy editors and agents and publishers; the afterword in the new edition of "The Last Samurai" is uncharacteristically discreet.
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"We worry that the errors and serious breaches of Times standards that copy editors catch each day will go unnoticed — until we are embarrassed into making corrections," they wrote.
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The company has cut dozens of staff members and critical positions, like copy editors and its highly-visible public editor role, an in effort to put more resources into digital.
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This is Rob Hoerburger's pop-music novel, "Why Do Birds," and I'd tell you to read it even if Rob weren't one of the greatest copy editors at The Times.
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They wrote up a post, vetted it through ProMED's structure of copy editors and moderators, and hit the button to publish it at one minute before midnight on December 219.
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It had also eliminated local copy editors and designers, moving those jobs to a central hub in Austin, Texas, where New Media hired more than 300 people, he told Bloomberg.
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How were the current employees, particularly reporters and copy editors, provided an opportunity to provide valuable input on both the specification of the problem(s) as well as creative solutions?
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Is it a sign that the safety nets we used to have in journalism — fact-checkers and copy editors, for instance — are dwindling and there is more of this to come?
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I acquired the most useful writing discipline of my life from fat, cigar-chewing Jersey Journal copy editors—burned-out reporters—at desks in a half circle facing the city editor.
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GEORGE JOCHNOWITZProfessor emeritus of linguisticsCollege of Staten Island, CUNYNew York * As the American Copy Editors Society stoke this debate, I would propose "o" for the epicene pronoun to replace he and she.
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Slot editors, copy editors and producers should not publish a story with any anonymous sourcing that does not have a note indicating that the department head or deputy has approved the sourcing. 3.
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So at a recent meeting of the American Copy Editors Society, the "Chicago Manual of Style" and the Associated Press (AP) stylebook, both widely followed, announced a change that sent waves through the audience.
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Just look at what happened last week after that Goliath of the digital transformation, Facebook, pared back the team of "curators" and copy editors who oversaw the selection process for its "Trending Topics" feed.
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The first thing I did was to call Steve, so that he could spread the word in New York that a story was coming and have copy editors and push alert writers standing by.
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" Charles Klaveness Former Times staff editor "Bill loved to tease his copy editors, especially when it came to his Evening Hours feature — dozens of head-and-torso shots and captions showing the rich and famous.
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"We anticipate a productive relationship with new management for all Ringer staff members: podcasters, writers, editors, illustrators, fact checkers, copy editors, social media editors, and video and audio producers," the union wrote in a Wednesday statement.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY "Copy editors save our buts" The message on a sign carried by a New York Times employee protesting plans to cut the paper's editing staff BREAKFAST BROWSE People are talking about these.
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Still, the magazine's copy editors dutifully hyphenate "teen-ager" even as we half-heartedly enforce the ban on "balding"—the editor William Shawn preferred "partly or partially bald"—without knowing exactly what is wrong with it.
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It's pretty difficult to make digital marketing sexy, but crystal (yes, with a lower-case c, which is going to drive journalists and copy-editors bananas for the foreseeable future) is going at it with both barrels.
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Much to the relief of my copy editors, it turns out that Mr. Steinberg's theme has nothing to do with cursing, despite the FOUR LETTER WORDS revealer that he has stretched across the center of his grid.
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The bargaining group is made up of print and digital staffers, including writers, editors, producers, copy editors, fact checkers, and other non-managers at the magazine and its digital verticals — the Cut, Vulture, Intelligencer, Grub Street, and Strategist.
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When the Disney+ streaming service launches, it will also mark the kickoff of the much-anticipated High School Musical television series, aptly (or confusingly, at least for our copy editors) titled High School Musical: The Musical: The Series.
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With the imminent elimination of a stand-alone copy desk at The New York Times, copy editors and reporters have sent two strongly worded letters to top management voicing their concerns over the changes to the newsroom's structure.
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Some sixteen copy editors are due to forego leave and be on hand in the coming weeks to process final rules expected from dozens of agencies, said an official familiar with the operation, but not authorized to speak to the media.
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"There's no way that you can produce the quality or amount of content that a big online magazine can without a team," said Ms. Rich, who employs a social media manager, site director, web developer and video and copy editors.
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"Copy editors are, finally, the people with the knowledge and the reach to span the entire arc of a story from the reporter on the ground to the staff editor moving the parts on the home page," Mr. Knittle said.
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"Copy editors, in the view of practitioners, are the people who keep written or spoken news (106.343) factually correct, (2) understandable, (3) to the point, (4) and grammatically fluent, when possible," Betsy Wade, a former chief of the foreign copy desk, said.
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As the title (a nightmare for copy editors) would suggest, "BlacKkKlansman" tells the remarkable story of Ron Stallworth (John David Washington, Denzel's son), an African-American police officer in Colorado Springs, who got the rather audacious idea in the 1970s of infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan.
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Like fact checkers or copy editors, sensitivity readers can provide a quality-control backstop to avoid embarrassing mistakes, but they specialize in the more fraught and subjective realm of guarding against potentially offensive portrayals of minority groups, in everything from picture books to science fiction and fantasy novels.
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In preparing this year's fall preview, dozens of reporters, editors, critics, copy editors and fact checkers spent January to August compiling hundreds of listings to provide readers with insight into the forthcoming season of television shows, Broadway premieres, art exhibitions, classical music performances, pop and jazz record releases.
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As part of the restructuring, management plans to replace the current, layered system of copy editors and "backfielders" — editors who assign and work with reporters on articles — with a single layer of editors who will handle all aspects of an article, including conception, sentence-level editing and fact checking.
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In a memo to the newsroom, Dean Baquet, the executive editor, and Joseph Kahn, the managing editor, said the current system of copy editors and "backfielders" who assign and shape articles would be replaced with a single group of editors who would be responsible for all aspects of an article.
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On Wednesday, copy editors sent an open letter to Dean Baquet, The Times's executive editor, and Joe Kahn, the managing editor, challenging the decision to cut staff and eradicate the copy desk, which is responsible for, among other things, catching factual and grammatical errors and ensuring that articles adhere to Times style guidelines.
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In a memo to the newsroom, Dean Baquet, the executive editor, and Joseph Kahn, the managing editor, said the current system of "backfielders " and copy editors — two separate groups who have different tasks before a story is published — would be replaced with a single group of editors who would be responsible for all aspects of a story.
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Finally, how odd it was to see my closest friend in art, Dick Higgins (1938–1998), sometimes identified as Richard H. (Aren't book publishers' copy editors required to establish consistency?) While the appearance of this Selected Letters probably provides an occasion for further favorable reviews of John Cage, along with yet other appreciations of his richly radical artistic career, may I doubt if this book adds or informs much.
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