Copy editing makes a good publication better. A copy editor can improve any document by eliminating errors, addressing grammar problems, and ensuring consistent style. This course is for people who ...

To be a copy editor is to tackle one of the toughest – and sometimes most thankless – jobs in the newsroom. To get hired or to move ahead in the business is even tougher – in many newsrooms, it‘s ...

Is editing the career for you? Through course reading, exercises, and assignments, we will introduce you to the roles and responsibilities of editors, as well as the knowledge and skills editors need ...

Every now and then, people ask me whether I actually enjoy my job. They point out that I spend hours at The Michigan Daily every week making others look better and ask me if, deep down, I’d rather ...

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 ...

Q: I have no previous newspaper or journalism experience. I have a few published clips of Dave Barry style opinion and first-person narrative pieces, as well as a few CD reviews, both for national ...