<p>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 ...

From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their ...

By Anne Glover, Assistant Managing Editor/Copy Desk, St. Petersburg Times To be a copy editor is to tackle one of the toughest – and sometimes most thankless – jobs in the newsroom.

But whether I like it or not, copy editing for the Daily Bruin has forced me to acknowledge those mistakes, to hold myself accountable for them and to do my best to learn from them and then move on.

To someone not involved in copy editing, it may seem like a tiresome, time-consuming, overlooked job that couldn’t possibly be enjoyable, especially when compared to the other sections of the paper, ...

The Times’s standards editor, Philip B. Corbett, invites readers to correct grammatical errors in recent New York Times articles.