During my editing days at the Los Angeles Times, in an effort to bring civility to the relationship between the City Desk and the Copy Desk, I asked a Copy Desk supervisor, Mike Castelvecchi, to join ...

Welcome to the Copy Shop – the platform for members of Daily Bruin Copy to rant about the Oxford comma, discuss sensitivity in mass media and attempt to generally demystify the mind-boggling and ...

A career in journalism was never on my radar. Activism – which is commonly perceived as incompatible with journalism – constituted a large part of my identity in high school. I attended marches, led ...

It was no surprise when newspapers across the country started culling their copy editing staff. After all, newsroom layoffs in the 21st century aren’t exactly breaking news. For some papers, however, ...

A week in the life of a copy editor wouldn’t make for a good movie — a lot of sitting, staring and tapping at the comma key on a computer. But for language nerds and people who’d like to improve their ...