ACES members chat about grammar, language on public radio
Two ACES members — Merrill Perlman and Lisa McLendon — will be guests on the Minnesota Public Radio program “Midmorning” on Feb. 2 from 10 to 10:45 a.m. They will discuss grammar and language and take questions from callers.You can listen live on the “Midmorning” website or download a podcast after the show.
Perlman, an editing consultant, is the ACES Education Fund president and writes the Language Corner column for Columbia Journalism Review. McLendon, ACES vice president/conferences, is deputy news desk chief at the Wichita Eagle and runs the Grammar Monkeys blog and Twitter account at @GrammarMonkeys.
ACES awards five scholarships
The American Copy Editors Society has awarded five students with its 2011 scholarships: Joshua Barone, Zachary Aldrich, Matthew Draper, Margaux Henquinet and Arielle Retting.
As the top candidate among the applicants, Barone was named the Aubespin scholar. The scholarship is named for Merv Aubespin, the former Louisville Courier-Journal editor who is considered the “godfather” of ACES. As the Aubespin scholar, Barone receives $2,500. Other winners each receive $1,000.
» Meet the scholarship winners.
Interns will help spread word about ACES
ACES has named a corporate communications intern who will focus on the publicity campaign for the 2012 national conference in New Orleans.
Mekita Rivas is a a journalism and English double major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
She joins fellow UNL student Danae Lenz in the ACES internship program. Lenz is serving as content intern, primarily writing stories for the ACES newsletter and copydesk.org.
» Meet Mekita Rivas and learn about her internship goals.
» Meet content intern Danae Lenz.
The 2011 Headline Contest is now open
The American Copy Editors Society’s annual contest offers a total of $3,250 in cash prizes — first-place winner earns $300 and a plaque; second place gets $125 and a certificate; and third place is awarded $75 and a certificate. For student entries, the amounts are $125, $75 and $50, respectively. A plaque or certificate is also awarded to all award winners and runners-up, including each contributor in the staff category.
For the second year, we’ve expanded the categories to include non-newspaper work and have added an online category. Also new is the expansion of the staff categories, to acknowledge smaller newspapers and web-only shops. And, like last year, in addition to our traditional paper forms, ACES will offer entrants an online form to submit JPGs and PDFs of their entries.
As always, current ACES members can submit their first entry free. Each additional entry is only $25. If you become a member, you also qualify for the member’s rate; otherwise, all nonmember entries are $50 apiece. Staff entries are $50. Student entries are free.
Check out the rules or submit your entry at http://www.copydesk.org/headlines. This year’s deadline is Tuesday, Jan. 31.
Results will be announced at the ACES National Conference, which is April 12, 2012, in New Orleans.
‘Glamour of Grammar’ author
to be ACES 2012 keynote speaker
Roy Peter Clark
Roy Peter Clark of the Poynter Institute will be the keynote speaker at ACES 2012 national conference in New Orleans.
Clark is a longtime writing instructor and author of more than a dozen books on writing and language, including “Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer,” “The Glamour of Grammar” and, most recently, “Help! For Writers.” He has been at Poynter, where he is vice president and senior scholar, since 1979.
“My admiration for copy editors is such that it has been a hope that I’d one day get invited to ACES,” Clark said about getting the keynote invitation.
We’re thrilled to have him, and can’t wait to see what he — and his piano — will cook up at the ACES banquet.
» Learn more about the 2012 ACES national conference
Register for ACES’
2012 conference in New Orleans
Registration is now open for ACES’ 2012 National Conference in New Orleans. Register online now to get the best rate. To get started, go to our registration page.
The next annual meeting is less than six months away, and the society is hard at work planning sessions aimed at keeping you on top of editing and technology. Check out all that’s in store for March at nola.copydesk.org; you’ll find conference rates and more than a few reasons ACES is the best training for editors at the lowest price.
