The American Copy Editors Society, also known as "ACES", is a professional association mainly for copy editors at U.S. newspapers, but others are welcome. Copy editing is the process of an editor making formatting changes and other improvements to text. ...
As of 2004, the group offers: 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
a headline contest,
member directories,
a newsletter,
scholarships,
several chapters,
three-day annual conferences, and
a Web site that links to job listings and a discussion board.
ACES was founded in the 1990s by Pam Robinson (also the first president) and Hank Glamann. Its inception followed work by the American Society of Newspaper Editors and meetings by copy editors in North Carolina and South Carolina. A headline is text at the top of a newspaper article, indicating the nature of the article below it. ... Pam Robinson is the founder of the American Copy Editors Society. ... American Society of Newspaper Editors The American Society of Newspaper Editors, also known as ASNE, is a membership organization for daily newspaper editors, people who serve the editorial needs of daily newspapers (wire service editors, news executives at newspaper companies, people who work for journalism think tanks, etc. ...
It has an executive committee of 15 people, of whom five are officers: the president, vice president for conferences, vice president for membership, secretary and treasurer.
Tim Lynch, senior copy chief, of the Los Angeles Times has been named the 2006 Robinson Prize winner, the second recipient to receive the award from the AmericanCopyEditorsSociety.
Jennifer Karmon, national copyeditor, also at the Times, said that Lynch is the best headline writer at the paper, with an understated elegance you notice most in its absence.
As Springer said, for the copy desks and all of us, he is guru, pilot and friend.
The copy desk problem: This report by the AmericanSociety of Newspaper Editors reflects its long-standing interest in the plight of copyeditors.
CopyEditor, the newsletter: Founded in 1990 by Mary Beth Protomastro, this national newsletter on copy editing was hailed in the May 1997 American Journalism Review as the Rosetta Stone of copy editing.
NYU copy editing class: This is the syllabus and some assignments for Sonia Jaffe Robbins' copy-editing class.
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