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 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
