*update* Copy editors matter. Nothing has changed much since I wrote this article. In these days of AI everything, copy editors (and copyeditors, and proofreaders) do still matter. Read on to find out why … Yesterday copy editors on Twitter came out in solidarity with their colleagues in the New York Times. The paper is…
As an editor I often like to remain anonymous. As a copy editor I feel that I’m just polishing the author’s intentions and getting their ‘real’ story out there. We all know what it’s like to be tongue-tied, that feeling that you know what you want to say but you just can’t get it out….
Copyeditor or proofreader. Aren’t they the same thing? It’s weird. For a profession that deals with words we have quite a few names for the same thing. Most of it’s down to location, for instance US and UK editors have their own, slightly varying, terminology. But Hell, we can’t even settle on copy editor, copy-editor…