Vice Seeks Copy Editor "for it’s upcoming Vice News website"
Who says copy editors are not "cool?" Tell that to fabulous Vyce Media!
New York policy expert Michael Wolff believes you can take the subway "from Red Hook to Wall Street." (Also: the Guardian believes "sleaze balls" should be two words.)
Data-mining expert and performance artist Jay Z has officially dropped the hyphen from his name.
The Agony of Working With the New York Times Copy Desk
Goateed woman-chaser and FBI consultant Neil Strauss was once an actual reporter for the New York Times. It's true! Now he's sharing some of his experiences dealing with NYT copy editors. SPOILER: They are motherfucking prim.
Christine O'Donnell's Supporters Need a Copy Editor (Updated)
Delaware Tea Party Senate candidate (and recent college graduate) Christine O'Donnell has some important messages for America on her website: Jobs! Taxes! Terrorists! Too bad the intern who runs O'Donnell's site can't even spell her name right. (Updated)
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Okay, time to say goodbye. I'm moving eight blocks up the street. This has been absurd. I'm starting at the Village Voice tomorrow. This is embarassing. TLDR warning. Whatever. Here we go:
'The Profession I've Dedicated My Life to Is Slowly Evaporating Before My Very Eyes'
Blogger behind "Kenneth in the (212)," is a NYT News Service union-busting/layoff victim, "strangely unbitter."
Tory Spelling
The most commonly misspelled word in the English language is "supersede," according to some survey quoted in London's Daily Telegraph, which opines that perhaps the root of our most common misspellings is simply that some people are too "clever." Ummmm, if by clever you mean American…colour me impressed! [But click…
New York Times is hiring six copy editors, and would like potential applicants to know that "several of the editors listed on the newspaper's masthead started on the paper's copy desk." [Poynter]
