Q: I’m in a bit of a quandary. I’m a sports editor at a small daily looking to move up to something in the 20,000-30,000 circulation range after five years, but I’m limited in where I can go and there ...

A copy editor’s job is largely an invisible one. Over the past three years I’ve worked as a copy editor for Daily Bruin, I’ve spent a significant amount of time double-checking 20-years’ worth of ...

Too often copy editors and reporters are viewed as adversaries rather than collaborators. The best copy editors work with reporters to improve their stories and ensure accuracy. Respect the writer's ...

Q: I am currently a general assignment reporter for two weekly community newspapers. I will have been here 21 months, and I’m ready to move on. I had originally intended to move elsewhere for my next ...

Every now and then, people ask me whether I actually enjoy my job. They point out that I spend hours at The Michigan Daily every week making others look better and ask me if, deep down, I’d rather ...

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 ...

According to Ted Diadiun ("Battle against errors intensifies as time and staff constrict," April 6), Chris Quinn aims to elevate the literacy of the newspaper and website through having reporters "ask ...

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 ...

So you just received a printed copy of a Word document, and you would like to edit it. That's all good, but unfortunately, you don't have the original hard copy of the document from which the ...