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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 on 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. Blogslot: An accompaniment to “The Slot”Latest post, published 07/23/2008: “It's the Dummy Type, Dummy” 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 07/21/2008: “Print to Web” Pam Robinson, 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. Common Sense JournalismLatest post, published 07/23/2008: “A tale of a newspaper reader lost ...” 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 07/18/2008: “Vacation — all I ever wanted” 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 07/23/2008: “Readers -- who needs 'em?” 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 07/23/2008: “Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh” Triangle Grammar GuideLatest post, published 07/21/2008: “Bread and circuses” Pam Nelson, a longtime Raleigh, N.C., News & Observer journalist, dishes on language use and misuse and answers questions about grammar and style. That’s the Press, BabyLatest post, published 07/22/2008: “Things to Do in Print When You're Dead” 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. 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 07/16/2008: “Municipal follies” 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 07/19/2008: “Favre saga goes from bad to verse” Kathy Schenck, copy desk chief at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and ACES Education Fund secretary, blogs about language and editing. Web of LanguageLatest post, published 07/21/2008: “so now I have an excuse” Dennis 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 05/12/2008: “Dictionary piece in the Boston Globe yesterday” 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. Double-Tongued DictionaryUnable to open RSS Feed http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/grantbarrett/rss/ with error HTTP ERROR: 403, exitingGrant Barrett, creator and editor of the Double-Tongued Dictionary, is a lexicographer and editor of the Official Dictionary of Unofficial English. His site chronicles the lexicon of fringe English. Grammarphobia BlogLatest post, published 07/23/2008: “Group therapy” Patricia T. O'Conner, author of "Woe is I" and "Words Fail Me," and her husband, Stewart Kellerman, debunk grammar myths and write about current trends of the written word. A Capital IdeaLatest post, published 04/29/2008: “Two blog posts in one day!” Nicole Stockdale of the Dallas Morning News blogs periodically about ACES and copy-editing issues. |
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