(www.inkthinkerblog.com) — Copyeditors are the unsung heroes of the writing world, but Metro copyeditor Jeff Baron of the Washington Post may have brought a little music to their lives with his beautiful description of the job of the copyeditor in last Sunday’s edition. Some excerpts:
I consider my workday worthwhile if I’ve made one especially good catch or written one sterling headline.
…Copy editors might be the only people who can discuss, cheerfully and seriously and on their own time, when to hyphenate a compound adjective. Normal people, I have found, deeply do not care.
We have the satisfaction of helping turn rushed prose into a great newspaper. We have the respect of the superb reporters whose butts we sometimes save. And as The Post and other newspapers make do with fewer of us, putting fewer pairs of eyes on each column of type, I’m afraid readers will notice us by the mistakes we no longer keep out of print.
This is truly worth a read. I hope you’ll check it out.
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