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Alex Norcia is the copy editor for VICE magazine and VICE.com.
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Often, I was the copy editor chosen to perform the procedure.
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Nancy Depper, a copy editor and proofreader in Oakland, has multiple sclerosis.
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Mr. Willett, 47, is a copy editor for The New York Times Magazine.
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"You were the best Sub on the Street," Murdoch says—meaning copy editor.
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I have been a copy editor and writer for more than 30 years.
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I was a copy editor and later news editor of The Chicago Tribune.
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At 25, Josie Geller is the youngest copy editor at The Chicago Sun-Times.
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Others pointed out that the school guidance counselor could have used a copy editor.
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As chief copy editor for BuzzFeed, Favilla's at the sharp edge of online editing.
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Her mother retired as a freelance copy editor for children's books in New York.
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Yeah, I had to fight to get my copy editor to not correct those glitches.
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But she did concede to an office job, working as a copy editor for Scholastic.
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Although Astor never learned to type, he was a good copy editor and headline writer.
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Among those involved in the project were a copy-editor, a judge, and a psychiatrist.
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Copy editor Eva Langfeldt would copy-edit the manuscripts and send them to the type house.
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He hacked the copy editor — who, by the way, is the nicest woman on the earth.
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The editor responded and offered me a paid internship as their copy editor for two months.
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At heart, Reedsy remains a marketplace to find an editor, copy editor, cover illustrator and more.
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They may not always do it consciously, any more than a copy editor consciously corrects typos.
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The Public Theater, 1993 Apocalyptic event A young copy editor navigates a despoiled New York City.
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I could hire a copy editor, publicist, and stuff like that, but y'all ... where is your value?
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Eileen Guzmich, a copy editor at The New York Times Index, was confident the bird would recover.
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The phrases aren't the work of a single copy editor, but are designed by a combination of Drive.
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A former copy editor, I found this search immediately fruitful; the jungle of grammar is, after all, bountiful.
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"I was mainly concerned with production, but when I started, we didn't have a copy editor," recalled Barry.
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When Bourdain was a teenager, his mother, Gladys, worked as a copy editor at The New York Times.
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A. The bottom line is pretty specific: two columns, turned in to the copy editor by 8 p.m.
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She was hired as a copy editor at The New York Post and married her boss, Dick Runyon.
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In the summer of 1994, I joined The Times as a copy editor on the Sunday Book Review.
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Thanks to Eric Nagourney, my copy editor, who saved me many times from fumbling over my own words.
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The groom's mother retired as a copy editor, in Ithaca, for the journals of the Ecological Society of America.
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Ten of the 11 were men; it took a copy editor to point that out and get it changed.
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She is a copy editor at Wine Spectator magazine in Manhattan, and writes food and lifestyle articles for the publication.
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Typos happen all the time, but the copy editor at The Gotham Times probably lost their job over this one.
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"I was very happy that they took us seriously," said Dara Rosen, a 17-year-old junior and copy editor.
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First, I sympathize, as always, with the dilemma of the copy editor trying to fit "undocumented immigrants" into a headline.
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How about "leapfrogged," asked George Rood, a metro copy editor with a cranky demeanor and the soul of a poet.
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Design: James Bareham; Developers: Frank Bi, Ryan Mark; Editor: Michael Zelenko; Copy-editor: Kara Verlaney; Transcription: Matthew Davis; Video: Kimberly Mas
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Every current reviewer and copy editor on the team was interviewed, and the company says it also talked to former contractors.
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So, when I sent it to the copy editor after looking at it, I just wrote "stet," and it was stetted.
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On top of his full-time job as a copy editor, he works another 20 hours a week on writing gigs.
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Unfortunately, the social media/content production/advertising/how do we even categorize Facebook anymore company is in need of... a copy editor.
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Then, Kaitlyn interviews The Verge's copy editor Kara Verlaney about her thoughts on proper punctuation across the internet and all its forms.
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Then it goes to a copy editor, who gives it another deeply welcome check, and also makes sure it follows Times style.
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He joined The London Daily Mail as a Berlin correspondent in 1959 and was later a copy editor for The Minneapolis Tribune.
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Norris is the famous New Yorker copy editor who wrote "Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen" a few years ago.
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WHAT I LOVE For the author and former New Yorker copy editor Mary Norris, furnishing an apartment is all about the books.
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I hereby demand the White House hire a copy editor so the president doesn't have to tweet and delete three times pic.twitter.
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Here are some examples, including two that feature our lovely copy editor, Kara: New Snapchat update brings AR into the world around you.
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Although these aren't all necessary for every writer, I have a developmental editor, a copy editor and a proof reader on my team.
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After an early career with United Press, he was initially hired by The Times as a sports copy editor, specifically in Olympic sports.
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After working at The Pittsburgh Press and Newsday, on Long Island, she was hired by The Times as a copy editor in 1995.
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Following the National Guard convoys out of the city at night after my shift as a copy editor ended at The Newark News.
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"I like it the best and collect it the most," said the D.J., 54, who works as a copy editor at People magazine.
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She became a copy editor at Reader's Digest in 1959 and remained there until the early 1980s, when she began writing full time.
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She's the features editor at Topical Cream, a copy editor and frequent contributor at PIN-UP, and the New York correspondent at Editorial magazine.
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Credits: Video editor: Joy Sharon Yi; Directors of photography: Shane Alcock, Joy Sharon Yi; Copy editor: Mary-Ellen Deily; Editors: Michael Duffy, Kate Woodsome.
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After jobbing as an art critic and copy editor at various publications, he wrote "The Desert and Its Seed," his only novel, in 1995.
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But if you're the Library of Congress producing official materials on behalf of the American government, shouldn't you have a copy editor check it out?
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"That's all he ever really wanted to do, in my mind," said Don Burke, who is a sports copy editor at The New York Post.
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"It's a dilemma for us, as it is, I think, for everyone," said Mary Norris, a copy editor and grammar authority at The New Yorker.
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The channel kicked off in 2018, and is the work of three 20-year-olds: copy editor Ed Krish, and students Hal Krish and Nick Green.
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We also recognize our brilliant designer, Jon Sueda, our magnificent copy editor, Lindsey Westbrook, and the journal's past editors, Tara McDowell, Chelsea Haines and Lumi Tan.
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And once you're hooked up to Reedsy's book editor, chances are you'll want to work with an editor, a copy editor, an illustrator or a publicist.
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Meanwhile, Senior Copy Editor Elizabeth Crane has decided 2018 will be the culmination of her resolution this year, to cut the cord with her cable company.
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" But, as Baltimore Sun copy editor John E. McIntyre noted, 19th- and 20th-century writers from Jane Austen to W.H. Auden still used the singular "they.
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To enhance her employment opportunities, she worked as a copy editor for a news service during the day and attended New York University Law School at night.
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Early in his career, he had been a copy editor at the paper, but had left to pursue what he described as his dream job: sports reporting.
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Other sins against the ancient text include "airbrushing" the original Hebrew, attempting to smooth over its concrete simplicity with the reflexes and embellishments of a copy editor.
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Prior to joining Reuters, Ruthy also interned in radio and wrote for newspaper and online platforms as well as being a copy editor for a bilingual magazine.
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To his everlasting credit, Marv's successor, Chuck Strum, took a flyer on this unknown copy editor and let her become, well into her 40s, a cub reporter.
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"I think that the users of a language — the people — should be guiding standards, not brands or companies," Kara Verlaney, The Verge's senior copy editor, told me.
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We are looking for a dedicated journalist, and rigorous, experienced copy-editor to help 1843 develop its online editorial strategy as well as manage the online publication schedule.
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Editor: Eliza BarclayGraphics: Javier Zarracina Copy editor: Tanya PaiProject manager: Susannah LockeSpecial thanks: Mohsin Ali for research assistance and Hilda Bastian for advice on searching the medical literature.
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Barrymore plays Josie Geller, a mousy 25-year-old grammar nerd who serves as the Chicago Sun Times' youngest copy editor but dreams of becoming a serious reporter.
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Thankfully, Nick has a copy editor who, in addition to polishing the grammar and helping with headlines, also does some fact-checking and is an invaluable safety net.
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So I sent the question to Mary Norris, author of "Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen" and a legendary copy editor at The New Yorker.
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A Times copy editor, she kick-started Anthony Bourdain's career when she helped him get a tell-all article about the restaurant world published in The New Yorker.
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"It felt like you were going through a furnace momentarily," said Nirmal Mitra, a copy editor at Newsday who was on his way home on the westbound train.
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But she did eventually get a job, as a copy editor for Scholastic magazines in lower Manhattan — a position with benefits that included, among other things, veterinary coverage.
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Two other victims, editorial page editor Gerald Fischman and John McNamara, a writer and copy editor, earned their bachelor&aposs degrees from the university more than three decades ago.
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She plays a 20-something copy editor at the Chicago Sun-Times who has, yeah, never been kissed, and the attention the script gives this plot point is obnoxious.
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" There was one woman who actually took pity on me, and I said, "I have this linguistics degree and maybe I can be a copy editor for legal documents.
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" A copy editor at the Times who organized the effort to unionize told the paper it was important for employees to have a say "in the decision-making process.
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Ms. Reagle, 26, a copy editor, and Ms. Maloney, 25, a data analyst, had been making great time in their white Ford Focus, all set for a 3 p.m.
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There's no way for the reader to know if this error was introduced during the editing process or if it's a typo of Beattie's that eluded the copy editor.
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The couple met at Princeton, from which they graduated; the bride was a copy editor and the groom was a news writer on the staff of The Daily Princetonian.
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Absolutely. It's called the "Bitty Boomer" (and unfortunately, my copy editor will not allow me to throw three sets of extra quotations on there to fully communicate my disdain).
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Editor: Eliza Barclay Visuals editor: Kainaz AmariaSpecial projects editor: Susannah LockeFamily photos and video diaries: Courtesy of Jewel Francis-Aburime Video: Sam Ellis Copy editor: Tanya PaiFact-checker: Tim Williams
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Rickman first became interested in acting during his adolescent years, but — possibly motivated by early poverty — he began his working life as a graphic designer (and writer, and copy editor).
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Joining the conversation are Alissa Wilkinson, Vox's film critic; Eliza Barclay, senior editor for health and science at Vox; Nisha Chittal, Vox's audience engagement editor; and Tim Williams, copy editor.
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"In the good old days, the saying was that Ever E. Body got a middle initial in The Times," explains the paper's chief copy editor, Jill (no middle initial) Taylor.
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Ms. Clare was living in Brooklyn, working nights as a freelance copy editor for American Media, which publishes National Enquirer and Star, and writing "City of Bones" during the day.
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Thankfully, Nick has a copy editor, Bruce Levine, who, in addition to polishing the grammar and helping with headlines, also does some fact-checking and is an invaluable safety net.
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Noor Spanjer,MUNCHIES Netherlands Copy Editor I was 15 years old, and my very first boyfriend—he was 17 at the time—came from a totally different background than me.
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If something doesn't make sense or isn't worded clearly, the copy editor either figures out how to improve the text – or else kicks it back to the reporter for clarification.
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After they settled in Berkeley, he taught poetics for New College of California from 1987 to 2008, holding classes in his house; she was his copy editor and occasional collaborator.
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Vox book critic Constance Grady sat down with deputy policy editor Libby Nelson, engagement editor Nisha Chittal, copy editor Tim Williams, and Today, Explained intern Will Reid for a roundtable discussion.
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And when you're hunting for that follow-on think tank or talking head gig, the response you get may depend on whether you are viewed as the copy editor or the auteur.
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Another copy editor, Eric Morse, reviewed a 20-minute video and scrambled to edit a timeline and a slide show before starting on the dozen or so captions for the print obit.
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In memoriam: Gladys Bourdain, a longtime copy editor at The Times, helped kick-start the writing career of her son Anthony, who went on to become a celebrity chef and TV host.
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Riding a No. 2 train on Tuesday morning, Parlan McGaw, 61, a copy editor for Life Books, said many of his co-workers who live in other boroughs would probably miss work.
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"I just thanked a copy editor, for example, for observing that a story about the effect of climate change on fall foliage in Canada had used only American sources," Mr. Knittle said.
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She also said that the lighthearted lede of an article about a new use for technology was changed after a copy editor objected that the phrasing insulted an entire class of people.
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Here at The Verge, we are ready to have no science section, no social media team, no copy editor, half of our news editors, half of our reporters, and basically no video team.
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KT: The Verge's copy editor Kara Verlaney used her first pick to nab up neonatal intensive care nurse Danielle M., who already shares deep intimacies with Nick because they are both from Wisconsin.
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Indeed, long-serving columnist Gail Collins has described not having to alert an editor about what she's writing, though she acknowledged that a research assistant and copy editor play key roles before publication.
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Bill Walsh, who died March 15, was a copy editor extraordinaire for The Washington Post; this obituary is a tribute to his life, but also a stirring paean to practitioners of the craft.
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Before working for Broadly, she lived in Berlin, where she worked as the online editor of the literary blog Bookslut, a copy editor for anyone who paid, and a babysitter for very cute twins.
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Our copy editor Kara Verlaney, news editor Jake Kastrenakes, culture editor Chris Plante, culture reporter / news editor Lizzie Plaugic, science reporter Loren Grush, and yours truly will be facing off for all the marbles.
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Last year, Mr. Federle sold the studio apartment and moved a few blocks away to a one-bedroom in a prewar building that he now shares with his boyfriend, David Muto, a copy editor.
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Hello I am George R.R. Martin's copy editor for Winds of Winter, and let me tell you, I am just so busy with other stuff right now, I can't possibly edit this thing right now.
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Many of its changes are of a kind only a copy-editor would notice; but on an issue that has set teeth grinding for centuries, it marks a sea-change that Shaw would have appreciated.
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The slot editor picks up an article and hands it off to an available copy editor, who reads it for logic, spelling and grammar, among other things, and writes display type like headlines and captions.
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Her grandmother hired a copy editor to proof the book, and a designer to make the cover with its bubbly yellow script and illustrated thali, the stainless-steel plate crammed with many kinds of food.
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After working as a correspondent on Navy combat ships in the Pacific during World War II, he joined The Providence Journal in Rhode Island in 1952 and The Times as a copy editor two years later.
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The copy editor will look for grammatical errors, and sometimes the publisher's lawyer will check the book to make sure there's nothing libelous in there, but fact-checking is not part of the standard publisher's process.
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JOHN McNAMARA John McNamara was a longtime employee of the newspaper who had worked as a sports writer and copy editor and moved more recently to a weekly publication, the Bowie Blade-News, colleague David Broughton said.
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"One of the biggest challenges of being a copy editor is editing the copy of the most accurate writers," said Steve Bell, a veteran of the metro rim who now works with both metro and society news.
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At every newspaper in America, the beat reporter submits his or her story to a department editor, then a copy editor, then sometimes to a managing editor -- with specific words parsed and pored and debated at each stop.
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A. If the copy editor sees something that might be libelous or tasteless or otherwise contrary to the paper's standards, he or she might ask for a ruling from whichever op-ed editor is on duty that evening.
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The copy editor in us all will take out their red pencil, but what looks like a sloppy omission or addition is actually a very neat trick that makes the one word clue a definition for a phrase.
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The copy editor might suggest that a writer tighten up a particular passage, ditch unpleasant punctuation, switch a sentence around or — taking into account that we all sometimes unconsciously favor certain words — stop using "spatulate" all the time.
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Usually we had the authority to trend anything on our own [but] if it was something involving Facebook, the copy editor would call their manager, and that manager might even call their manager before approving a topic involving Facebook.
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Here's a look at how it works in most cases: After an article is written by a reporter, it's "filed" to a backfielder, then passed to a copy editor, then tossed to the slot, after which it's published. Touchdown!
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" He specifically shouts out his article "Ed Sheeran's 'Game of Thrones' cameo made me extremely angry" and the humor article "I'm George R.R. Martin's copy editor for 'Winds of Winter' and I'm just super swamped with other stuff right now.
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Carolyn Hax's bio even makes a point of describing her credentials as "five years as a copy editor and news editor in Style and none as a therapist" — it's more about building a track record of common sense with readers.
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"It was taught to curse like a sailor, and caused such a ruckus at Jackson's funeral that the bird was promptly escorted out," said Mr. Baker, of Queens, a 41-year-old copy editor who also runs a website called Petful.
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In 2015, Alicia Kennedy, then 29, quit her steady job as a copy editor at New York Magazine, cashed out her 401(k) and became a freelance writer and editor, specializing in cocktails, vegan food and the intersection of food and politics.
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Stressed out and headed to a meeting at Madewell, where she works as a social media copy editor, Ms. Clarke saw that the wall's location was on East Eighth Street in Manhattan at a meditation studio called MNDFL, which opened in November.
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He did not stay long, however; deciding that it was time to see Europe, he quit The Journal for a job with the military newspaper The Stars and Stripes as a civilian night-shift copy editor at its offices south of Frankfurt, Germany.
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Gladys Bourdain, a longtime copy editor at The New York Times who helped kick-start the writing career of her son Anthony, the chef who became a world-famous memoirist and television host, died on Friday at a hospice facility in the Bronx.
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He splits his time between his job as a freelance copy editor and his role heading up the Property Recovery Assistance Project with volunteer organization No More Deaths, which helps to retrieve and return the belongings that are separated from people during the deportation process.
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His mother, Sonja J. Corrsin, had been a flight attendant for Pan American World Airways before becoming a copy editor at The New-Paltz Independent; Mr. Corrsin and his sister, Anne Clare Corrsin, grew up in New Paltz, N.Y. Sonja Corrsin died in 2015.
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I asked LeAnn Wilcox, the Times weddings editor — and a former a copy editor on the sports desk, among others — how Weddings has changed since she took over as editor two years ago... and to debunk some of the persistent myths about her job.
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Next the story goes to a copy editor, where a new set of eyes looks at the story, especially mindful of spelling, grammar, clarity and proper use of the Times Stylebook (how to render words in foreign languages, for example) or anything that seems askew.
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And a few individual writers have done the same in recent years, with "Accidence Will Happen" by Oliver Kamm (the language columnist for the Times of London), "The Joy of Syntax" by June Casagrande (a copy editor and columnist) and "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker (a Harvard psychologist).
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In this bittersweet dramatization of Christopher Reid's poem, Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman prickle and swoon as former lovers — he is a copy editor and failed poet in London; she was his muse, now married to a successful novelist and living in Paris — meeting for lunch at their favorite trattoria.
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If you've seen the 1999 film Never Been Kissed, which is about a copy editor (Drew Barrymore) whose first assignment as a journalist is to go undercover at her old high school, you may recall a scene in which Barrymore's character apologizes to the man she was supposed to write about ... by writing about him in a sprawling personal essay.
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So it's true, my first job in journalism was at the Moscow Times in Russia in the mid '90s, and I think about that time, I was only there for two years and I began as a copy editor, which is still a skill that I take great pride in, and I think when I retire I will just spend my free time copy editing the internet.
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Editor's Pick: Alex Norcia, Copy Editor The Prophet and the Acolyte: Ammon Bundy's Fight to Take Back the West By James PogueThe Holy Cow Issue, April 2016 Wes Kjar is set to be on home arrest without any of his guns, but when I was first learning about him, in James Pogue's story, he had recently been arrested while driving a military truck with firearms and hundreds of rounds of ammo in Salt Lake City.
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The repetition of characters' names is certainly one possible fallback, and though you as a writer may initially think that that third "Constance" over the course of seven sentences is overkill, I as your copy editor strongly believe that your readers will be happier not to have to puzzle over which "she" you're talking about; I think of this as basic skeletal stuff and believe that it's all but invisible to readers.
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At this point, the theme started to come together, so much so that I was able to take a couple of guesses that panned out (well, sort of): First, maybe because I just got some lovely souvenir paintings back from the frame store, 45A seemed like a no-brainer: Museum curator HOWS IT HANGING But then that peculiar unexpected-choice thing I encountered so much in the clues struck me, and I had "him" instead of YOU for 96A: Parasitologist WHATS EATING HIM 23A was near and dear to my heart, and should probably have been a gimme, but it came toward the end: Copy editor IS THAT A FACT And I had to figure out the last two entries, referring to politics and sports, on crosses.
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