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Column: Copy editing yesterday and today

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 ...
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 ...
Since I joined NRN late last year, explaining my job to people I meet has been a lesson in shattered expectations. Once I tell them I work for a restaurant magazine in New York City, their faces and ...
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 ...