The year was 1997. ACES: The Society for Editing — formerly known as the American Copy Editors Society — was founded as a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting excellence in copy editing.

Once the unsung heroes of the newsroom, copy editors have been laid off in droves as media companies become leaner, meaner and riddled with typos. But amidst the collapse of the old journalism model ...

A couple of days ago, I received a desperate, all-caps text message from my younger sister asking for help with proofreading her First Big High School Essay. In all of my sisterly benevolence (and ...

War on the Rocks is seeking to hire two to four paid, part-time copy editors to work remotely for about five to 10 hours a week. Our copy editors are assigned to be “on call” during specific portions ...

In decades past, I would use a “blue pencil” to edit stories written by writers, marking the stories, which would then be typeset by typists before being converted to “hot lead,” which would then be ...

There is no Pulitzer Prize for literature's copy editors — and essayist Roy Peter Clark thinks there should be. He reflects on an early life lesson on the importance of the craft. BRAND: Today is the ...