In his 50s, Tom Hall stepped away from a teaching career to become a copy editor for BloodHorse publications. The new job proved a dream position for Hall, who loved horses and words. As he settled ...
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.
Newspaper copy editors are the unsung heroes of journalism, toiling behind the scenes but regularly saving reporters' reputations by focusing on the minutiae of stories — catching errors, correcting ...