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 ...

A copy editor recounts his obsession with perfection. By Benjamin Dreyer When I was a very young person, one of the jewels of my burgeoning personal library was a book about American Indians (as they ...

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 ...