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April 12: ACES honors the year’s ace headline writers

While I’m here in Virginia Beach slaving away over a hot stove blog, my ACES colleagues are in New Orleans this week, attempting to create an acute beer shortage meeting and discussing the finer points of journalism. Naturally, I wish I could join them. Perhaps next year. In the meantime, though, ACES today announced the winners of its annual headline [...]

March 16: Longtime newspaper copy editor Pam Nelson leaving newspapers

Board member Andy Bechtel of the American Copy Editors Society and a former News & Observer colleague of both Pam and myself writes today: Pam Nelson is taking a new job. Starting on April 2, she’ll be a copy editor for publications at the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. She’ll work from the Durham office. A 1976 graduate of [...]

Dec. 12, 2011: Pam Nelson starts new grammar blog for ACES site

No longer will this little visual journalism blog be the only blog here on the American Copy Editors Society web site. Today, longtime grammar blogger Pam Nelson — of McClatchy’s Charlotte production hub and a former colleague of yours truly — kicks off a new ACES blog called the Grammar Guide. A 1976 graduate of the University of North Carolina [...]

Oct. 19, 2011: The world needs more copy editors

The problem, of course, is the the world doesn’t always realize this. But you have to keep hope alive that it will. The trick, of course, is to be prepared with copy-editing skills when opportunity knocks. In order to do that, why not study a year with an assist from a scholarship from the American Copy Editors Society? The ACES [...]

May 11, 2011: Whither the clever headline? (2)

David Wheeler of the Atlantic reports: Despite the fact that [Las Vegas, Nev., Review-Journal copy editor Matthew] Crowley has won ACES’ top award for headline writing, he regularly finds that his funny headlines for the Review-Journal have been re-written by the online desk to be more search-engine-friendly. Matthew Crowley — For example, when Harrah’s casino announced plans to build a [...]

March 17, 2011: Buy this cool T-shirt and support ACES’ Education Fund (1)

Brian White of the American Copy Editors Society has put together a fundraiser for ACES’ Education Fund. And it looks like fun. Check it out: Wouldn’t you love to have that on a T-shirt? Yeah, me too. Especially after I learned it was designed by my good pal Patrick Garvin of the Boston Globe. Left: Brian White. Right: Patrick Garvin [...]

July 12, 2010: Same old blog. Brand new location. (13)

Hello, world! You’re now looking at my new blogging home on the web. Spiffy, ain’t it? The credit for building this blog all goes to my good pal Daniel Hunt of the Orange County Register. He’s the webmaster for ACES, the American Copy Editors Society. Daniel and me, April 2009 in West Chester, Pa. — And yeah, he’s good. And [...]