Baltimore Sun Copyeditor Doles Out Advice For Copyeditor Wannabes
John McIntyre has worked as a copy editor for more than thirty years. In this interview on Copyediting.com, he talks about how he got his gig and what advice he’d share for other editors who would like to edit copy at newspapers:
“Consider a vocation in a religious order,” he said. “Then at least someone might feed you.”
Tee hee.
After the jump, a few more choice excerpts from the interview:
How did you get into editing, John?
I abandoned pursuit of a Ph.D.
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