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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 05/29/2009: “A Common Mistake” 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 07/02/2009: “Science Conference” 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 06/21/2009: “Department Store Building of the Week, Vol. 31” 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 07/02/2009: “New convergence newsletters” 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 06/26/2009: “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 07/02/2009: “Independence of thought, too” 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 07/02/2009: “Subtracting from the sum of human knowledge” 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 06/29/2009: “Modify your misplaced and dangling modifiers” 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 06/28/2009: “Look what we found” 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 William Safire'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 11/05/2008: “Pop!Tech Words!” 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 07/02/2009: “Happy birthday to Talk Wordy to Me” Brian White is a copy editor at the Louisville Courier-Journal. EditrixLatest post, published 06/21/2009: “Why Editrix Has Disappeared” Double-Tongued DictionaryGrant 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 07/02/2009: “A judgment call” 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. Conjugate VisitsLatest post, published 07/02/2009: “'Fine' Works by 'Excellent' Sign Makers” June Casagrande is a former reporter for the Los Angeles Times Community Newspapers and the author of "Mortal Syntax" and "Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies." She also writes a column for the Burbank Leader titled, "A Word, Please." A Capital IdeaLatest post, published 04/24/2009: “O noes — no O's!” Nicole Stockdale of the Dallas Morning News blogs periodically about ACES and copy-editing issues. Ask AP Stylebook"Ask the Editor" are questions from online Associated Press stylebook subscribers that are answered by AP National Editor David Minthorn. |
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