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The BlogrollA sampling of copy editing voices on the WebCan't get copy editing off your mind? On the lookout for more tips and tricks? Here's a blogroll of ACES members and other editors who lend their two cents to grammar pitfalls and to issues of the day. If there's a blog we missed or one you'd like to see, e-mail Daniel Hunt at thedanielhunt@gmail.com. Testy Copy EditorsLATEST POSTS A forum for newspaper copy editors and fans to talk shop. Registration is required. Phillip Blanchard is the proprietor. Blogslot: An accompaniment to “The Slot”Latest post, published 04/20/2012: “Hopefully, Everyone Will Do as They See Fit” Bill Walsh, author of "Lapsing Into a Comma" and "The Elephants of Style" and TheSlot.com, shares his insights on and off the Washington Post's national desk. Words at WorkLatest post, published 04/01/2012: “I'm Stunned” Pam Robinson, former editor for the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post news service at Newsday and a co-founder of ACES, posts her thoughts on language and the media. That’s the Press, BabyLatest post, published 03/30/2012: “Final Laurels” David Sullivan, an ACES national board member and an assistant managing editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer, writes about the future of newspapers, copy editing, and how it all relates, like everything else, to department stores. Common Sense JournalismLatest post, published 05/17/2012: “Ken Burns on Storytelling” An extension of the Common Sense Journalism monthly column by Doug Fisher, former broadcaster, newspaper reporter and wire service editor. The Editor’s DeskLatest post, published 05/22/2012: “My nominee for the best correction ever” Andy Bechtel, a professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, discusses editing and writing with an emphasis on the concerns of copy desks. You Don’t SayLatest post, published 03/26/2012: “A tree grows in Hamilton” John McIntyre, the Baltimore Sun's assistant managing editor for the copy desk, looks at issues of language and writing, particularly grammar and usage, as they come up in the paper's reporting. Headsup: The BlogLatest post, published 05/22/2012: “Today in quantitative methods” Fred Vultee is an assistant professor at Wayne State. He received his doctorate from Missouri in 2007 and spent 25 years as an editor at newspapers. He has taught editing, international issues reporting, and media theory and research methods classes. His research focuses on how news media perform in conflicts and crises. Triangle Grammar GuideLatest post, published 08/20/2011: “Grammar Guide quiz: Just a note before I go” Pam Nelson, a longtime Raleigh, N.C., News & Observer journalist, dishes on language use and misuse and answers questions about grammar and style. Copy-Editing CornerLatest post, published 06/27/2008: “A he or she behind the face” Mike Billings, an assistant city editor at the San Francisco Examiner and co-founder of the NorCal ACES chapter, shares his views on editing and the future of the industry. Watch Yer LanguageLatest post, published 07/02/2009: “Some headlines write themselves” Craig Lancaster, copy desk chief of the Billings Gazette in Montana, gives style and usage tips from his life on the desk. Words to the WiseLatest post, published 08/01/2009: “Moving on” Kathy Schenck, copy desk chief at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and ACES Education Fund secretary, blogs about language and editing. NYTimes.com Topic: GrammarA grammar and usage page managed by the editors of NYTimes.com, featuring columns from the venerable newspaper and Sunday magazine. It also has a light version of the Times's in-house copy-editing newsletter, After Deadline. Updated weekly. Also, check out Ben Zimmer's latest "On Language" columns from The New York Times Magazine. Web of LanguageDennis Baron, an English professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, opines language in the news and the changing face of literacy. Dictionary EvangelistLatest post, published 03/24/2012: “Thinking Digital talk from last May ...” Erin McKean, chief consulting editor for American dictionaries at Oxford University Press and a self-professed word nerd, blogs about what she knows best -- dictionaries. Talk Wordy to MeLatest post, published 02/06/2012: “Words of Others | The ABCs of Alien” Brian White is a copy editor at the Louisville Courier-Journal. EditrixWarning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known in /home/copydesk/www2/hold/blogroll/FeedForAll_XMLParser.inc.php on line 454 Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to www.editrix.us:80 (php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known) in /home/copydesk/www2/hold/blogroll/FeedForAll_XMLParser.inc.php on line 454 Fatal error: Call to undefined function php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known() in /home/copydesk/www2/hold/blogroll/FeedForAll_XMLParser.inc.php on line 519 | |||