1. NEWSLETTER OF THE AMERICAN COPY EDITORS SOCIETY
VOL. 17 ISSUE 2 • MAY-JUNE 2014 • ONLINE @ COPYDESK.ORG
ACES TAKES LEADERSHIP ROLE
Society joins with SPJ to focus on strengthening media industry.
ON PAGE 4
BUSTING MYTHS IN VEGAS
BY MATTHEW CROWLEY
ACES member since 2002
Elvis hadn’t left the building; he’d
just arrived. And a Planet Hollywood
Resort ballroom full of copy editors was
delighted.
Craig Silverman of the Poynter
Institute had just finished his keynote at
the 18th American Copy Editors Society
Conference, urging his audience to vet
the dubious and protect the truth. And,
he said, Las Vegas notwithstanding, Elvis
was still dead.
Or maybe not. To Silverman’s apparent
shock, the King of Rock ’n’ Roll bounded
onstage. Eyes shaded by dark sunglasses,
body encased in white jumpsuit, he
shook his hips and flapped his lips. That’s
Vegas, baby.
Elvis’ comeback, without even a
séance, temporarily rendered mythical
the long-standing notion that he’d died
(or ever aged). But long before Presley’s
proxy, ACES’ Niko Dugan, belted songs
and busted moves, myths had busted
all over the conference. It was enough to
leave the 330-plus attendees all shook up,
or at least with suspicious minds.
First, conferencegoers busted the
myth that flashing slots and glowing
neon would outdraw ACES sessions.
Standing-room-only classes in grammar,
lexicographical history and usage proved
this.
Second, research by Wayne State
University’s Fred Vultee continues to
dash the notion that the post-first, post-
fast digital era had rendered copydesks
superfluous.
“Some people may think that this
conference is just a bunch of crazy,
uptight grammar freaks crying in the
desert, fighting for punctuation and
subjunctive clause justice in an uncaring,
unfeeling world,” ACES President Teresa
Schmedding said. “The world has long
debated our value. … It mystifies me that
people still continue to argue in this day
and age that we’re not important, and I
think it’s because it’s difficult to measure
the absence of something.”
As ACES busted myths, NCAA
brackets busted for throngs of basketball
fans packed into a gallery next to the
convention space. Cheers sometimes
seeped into meeting rooms, contributing
to a uniquely Vegas-in-March din of
dinging machines, blasting rock and
blathering basketball analysts.
A major point of copy editor analysis,
and social media outrage, came as
Associated Press Stylebook editors
David Minthorn and Darrell Christian
announced “over” would henceforth be
acceptable as a synonym for “more than”
when used with numbers. It took mere
seconds for the news to reach Poynter
and for one Twitter wit to quip, “More
than my dead body.”
And Christian said this wasn’t a
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VEGAS CONTINUES ON PAGE 6
2. Thanks to all of you, your en-
thusiasm and thirst for knowl-
edge, our national conference
in Las Vegas was a screaming
success.
I would like to especially
thank all the more than 70
speakers who donated their
time and expertise. And the
volunteers who toil behind
the scenes for nothing but our
undying gratitude.
If you think it’s time to relax
now that the big show is over,
you’re wrong. We are gearing
up for a lot more training in
2014.
This year, we’ll be hosting
regional conferences in Chi-
cago, Omaha, Pittsburgh, Palm
Springs, Nashville and Mon-
treal. We’re also experimenting
with social events. Karen Mart-
wick is planning a copy editor
trivia night in Portland.
We’re also continuing to
offer you online training in
conjunction with the Poyn-
ter Institute. I’ll be doing a
webinar on managing creative
people. Also coming up is Lisa
McLendon (trimming content),
Neil Holdway (math) and Sue
Burzynski Bullard (curating
content). Plus, we’ve got the
copy editing certificate courses.
Gerri Berendzen continues to
provide great training through
our #ACESchat on Twitter.
ACES is also leading the
charge for better collabora-
tion among journalism orga-
nizations. We’ve invited the
presidents of other major U.S.
journalism organizations to
meet with us in Nashville this
fall for a leadership summit.
Our goal is to see how we can
work together to better serve
our members and help the
journalism industry.
So hang on to your edit-
ing hats. We’re just getting
started ...
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MAY-JUNE 2014
Vol. 17, ISSUE 2
EDITOR
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ASSOCIATE
EDITOR
Christine Steele
CONTRIBUTORS
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John Braun
Paul Chevannes
Matthew Crowley
Samantha Enslen
Margaux Henquinet
Kaitlyn Klein
Peter Parisi
David Sullivan
Robert Trishman
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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Teresa Schmedding, President
Daily Herald, suburban Chicago
(847) 427-4574
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David Sullivan, Vice President
The Philadelphia Inquirer
(215) 854-2357
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Neil Holdway, Treasurer
Daily Herald, suburban Chicago
(847) 427-4573
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Brady Jones, Secretary
Omaha World-Herald
(402) 444-1277
bradyjones@copydesk.org
EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
TERESA SCHMEDDING
was elected president of the
society in March 2010. She
is deputy managing editor/
digital at the Daily Herald
Media Group, overseeing its
website and the copy desks.
Email her at tschmedding@
copydesk.org.
Trainingdoesn’tstopwithconference
If you’re reading this, you’re already aware of the big change in the ACES newsletter. We’ve moved from paper and mail delivery to an
electronic edition.
The ACES Executive Committee voted to switch newsletter delivery to an electronic format. Members will receive an email four times a
year with a link to download a PDF of the newsletter from a secure site.
With ACES membership at a record level, this new PDF newsletter will certainly be greener. And switching to electronic delivery will
save the society about $8,000 a year in printing and mailing costs. All of the other work on the newsletter is done by volunteers, with
no cost to the society.
The PDF format and size is perfect for e-readers and tablets, and the PDFs can viewed on any computer or smartphone with free PDF-
reading software. And with each page at letter size, it’s easy for those who prefer to hold paper in hand to print out a copy.
If you have any questions about the new system, please email newsletter@copydesk.org.
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3. PHOTO COURTESY OF VISITPITTSBURGH
Pittsburgh, which is the site of the confluence of the Monongahela and Allegheny Rivers, has a lot of
nicknames and one is the City of Bridges. You’ll be able to see some of the city’s 446 bridges at ACES
19th national conference March 26-28 in Pittsburgh.
COPYDESK.ORG MAY-JUNE 2014 AMERICAN COPY EDITORS SOCIETY 3
If you missed our
conference in Las
Vegas — or even if you
didn’t — join us at an
ACES Editing Boot
Camp this summer
and fall.
ACES presenters
will be traveling the
country, spreading the
gospel of careful edit-
ing and proofreading.
At Boot Camp, we’ll
help you to:
• understand gram-
mar and punctuation
basics;
• set and manage an
editorial style;
• enhance clarity
and readability;
• ensure accuracy;
• and, explain to
your boss why editing
is important!
Here’s our schedule:
ACESEditingBoot
Camps
Aug.5— Montreal,
in conjunction with the
Association for Educa-
tion in Journalism and
Mass Communication
annual conference.
Aug.22 — Chicago
Sept.4 — Nashville,
in conjunction with the
Society for Profession-
al Journalism annual
conference.
Oct.30 — Palm
Springs, California,
in conjunction with
the Journalism and
Women Symposium
annual conference.
Nov.8— Omaha,
Nebraska.
ACESAdvanced
EditingBootCamps
OctoberTBD —
Washington, D.C.
To register, go to
workshops.copydesk.
org/events.
ACESSETS
REGIONAL
WORKSHOPS
Steal away to Pittsburgh
By JOHN BRAUN
ACES Executive Committee member
It’s the Steel City, the home-
town of Heinz, and Mister
Rogers’ neighborhood.
And next March, Pittsburgh
will garner a new distinction:
as host of the 2015 ACES na-
tional conference.
Registration has already be-
gun for the conference, which
will take place March 26 to 28
at the Wyndham Grand Pitts-
burgh Downtown. Right across
the street from the historic
Point State Park where the Al-
legheny and Monongahela riv-
ers meet to form the Ohio, the
hotel is offering a promotional
rate of $149 for the conference.
Add in that early registrants
can book the 2015 conference
at the 2014 price, and there’s no
reason not to go ahead and sign
up now at www.copydesk.org/
national-conference.
As you make your travel
plans, remember that Pitts-
burgh may be closer than you
think — just a stone’s throw
from Ohio and less than half a
day’s drive from Washington,
Baltimore, Philadelphia and
New York.
And if you want to present
a session at the conference,
you can nab a prime spot on
the schedule by emailing your
proposal to any of the ACES
conference committee mem-
bers: Karen Martwick, David
Brindley and John Braun.
So, as you enjoy spring
2014, firm up your plans to get
spring 2015 off to an excellent
start by joining us in Pitts-
burgh.
ACES19thnationalconferencetakesplace
wherethe AlleghenyandMonongahelameet
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BY DAVID SULLIVAN
ACES vice president
One new face will join the ACES Executive
Committee as a result of this year’s elections,
the first under a new format with a single vice
president.
David Brindley, managing editor
of National Geographic magazine,
is the new member of the Executive
Committee. He was elected to a two-
year term.
That new board format also left
the office of secretary open, and the
Executive Committee voted to fill the
vacant position with former board
member Brady Jones of the Omaha
World-Herald.
Re-elected to two-year terms were
incumbents freelance editor Mark
Allen, Gerri Berendzen of the Quincy Herald-
Whig, Sue Bullard of the University of Nebraska,
Karen Martwick of Travel Portland, and Fred
Vultee of Wayne State University.
Christine Steele of the Capital Group, who had
been vice president for membership, was elected
to a three-year term on the Executive Committee
as a result of receiving the highest number of
votes for the board.
Teresa Schmedding of the Daily Herald in
Chicago was elected to a third two-year term as
president of the society. David Sullivan of the
Philadelphia Inquirer, who had been secretary,
was elected to the new post of vice president.
Under the board’s new format, membership,
conferences, communications and other major
areas of the society’s activities will be headed by
board-appointed directors or chairs, with the
president and vice president variously overseeing
the directors and chairs.
Because Sullivan had a year left on his term as
secretary, the board — under the bylaws — was
empowered to fill an officer vacancy, using the
same criteria required for candidates for officer
positions in the election. Jones was appointed
on April 9 and will serve as secretary until next
year’s elections.
On Dec. 15, nominations will open for the
positions of secretary, treasurer, and three
executive committee seats. ACES encourages any
member in good standing to consider helping to
guide the organization by seeking the posts for
which they are qualified. The next election will be
from Feb. 15 to 28, 2015.
CHRISTINE
STEELE
MARK
ALLEN
GERRI
BERENDZEN
SUE
BULLARD
KAREN
MARTWICK
BRADY
JONES
DAVID
SULLIVAN
FRED
VULTEE
2014 ACES elections
DAVID
BRINDLEY
TERESA
SCHMEDDING
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bombshell announcement.
This ACES conference
focused on the increasingly
digital delivery of information,
with sessions on reporting
with LinkedIn, engaging
readers behind paywalls and
editing online content for
search engine optimization.
The three-day gathering
was social — both virtually,
with hundreds of ACES
moments tweeted live at
#ACES2014 — and physically.
Business cards got swapped in
Planet Hollywood’s upstairs
conference rooms as fast as
chips flew on the gambling
tables in the casino below.
Old friendships deepened
and new ones formed. Copy
editing celebrities, including
New York Times retiree
Merrill Perlman, Grammar
Girl Mignon Fogarty, The
Washington Post’s Bill Walsh,
The Baltimore Sun’s John
McIntyre, returned and other
guests added fresh star power.
The San Diego Zoo sent
Debbie Andreen, Karyl
Carmignani and Mary
Sekulovich, copy editors from
its Zoonooz magazine. They
described landing their jobs
(“The three of us of kind of
weaseled our way in”) and
the thrill of learning about
animals and unique headline
possibilities. (“If you can get
‘poop’ into a headline, you’re
good.”)
Lexicographers also
shined. Merriam-Webster’s
Kory Stamper and Peter
Sokolowski, with Steve
Kleinedler of Houghton Mifflin
Harcourt, the publisher
of American Heritage and
Webster’s New World
Dictionaries, kept packed
rooms rapt describing the
history of dictionaries, usage
dictionaries and hyphenation
rules across dictionaries.
In her usage dictionaries
session, Stamper encouraged
copy desks to use multiple
references, relying, say, on
both the slightly prescriptivist
Garner’s Modern American
Usage and the slightly
descriptivist Merriam-
Webster’s Dictionary of
English Usage. No usage
dictionary, or copy editor,
is wholly descriptivist or
prescriptivist, Stamper said;
they’re always both.
Often, she said, deciding
what to use will be slightly
squishy, based on an editor’s
judgment.
“Good copy editors consider
their audience; they consider
the tone of their publication;
they weigh that against the
work of the author,” she said.
“They also need to be sensitive
to a writer’s voice; they need to
be aware of the peculiarities of
a writer’s style.”
Beyond techniques and
tactics, the conference
emphasized the fight for
truth. The society screened “A
Fragile Trust,” a movie about
the Jayson Blair plagiarism
scandal at The New York
Times; offered sessions on
fighting link-related deception;
and presented the insights of
Silverman, author of “Regret
the Error.”
Before anyone reported
Elvis’ resurrection, Silverman
would have urged vetting.
Otherwise, rumors could start.
Rumors have existed as long
as people have, Silverman
said. And often, they’re less
about someone lying than
someone trying to discern
truth.
Fiction can be stranger than
truth. For example, he said,
in the 1990s, a rumor spread
that beverage maker Snapple
somehow supported the Ku
Klux Klan. This emerged,
Silverman said, because
the label on the company’s
beverage bottles featured
an 18th century-style ship
and a circled letter “K.” The
logic went that the ship was
the kind that ferried African
slaves and the K was a nod to
the Klan.
But the ideas were
ridiculous, Silverman said.
“Snapple was started
by three Jewish guys in
Brooklyn,” he said.
The pictured ship, he said,
was from the Boston Tea
Party. And the K simply
meant the product was kosher.
Fighting off rumors,
or outright lies, matters
particularly now, Silverman
suggested, because powerful,
well-financed entities will
manufacture doubt to further
their economic interests.
In the past, Silverman
said, tobacco ads warned
against cigarettes’ perils but
pictured a doctor smoking
one. (How bad could smoking
really be?) These days, he
said, some entities (including
corporations) try to sow
doubt about climate change,
although scientific consensus
corroborates its existence.
Copy editors, he said, are
well positioned to expose this
chicanery, Silverman said.
First, he said, they know
how to use tools, like
corroborated statistics, vetted
studies and the new, free-
to-download Verification
Handbook, to dispel
falsehoods. They can also use
their voices and instincts.
Copy editors, Silverman
said, examine text
counterintuitively and
interrogate it in ways writers
might not consider.
“This is your ability to hack
your brains in a way, to see
things that other people don’t
and to try to see the skeletons
of it, what are the sources and
where does this come from
and can we do better than
this?” he said. “That ability …
is an incredibly valuable skill
because you can spot bullshit
before other people do.
“And if you can spot it and
get rid of it, then other people
don’t have to see it,” he added.
“And that’s a very good thing.”
Matthew Crowley is a copy
editor for the Las Vegas Review-
Journal. Reach him at matthew_
crowley@copydesk.org or follow
him on Twitter at @copyjockey.
VEGAS:Copyeditorswellpositionedtoexposechicanery
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
MARK ALLEN PHOTO
Craig Silverman of the Poynter Institute talks about copy
editors as rumor smashers during the 2014 conference keynote
address March 21.
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SCENESFROMACES18THNATIONALCONFERENCE
MARK ALLEN PHOTO
Erin Brenner of Copyediting.com, left, looks on as
freelance copy editor Dawn McIlvain Stahl makes
a point during the Freelancer Forum.
MARK ALLEN PHOTO
ConferenceattendeeslookovertheitemsupforbidattheACESEducation
Fundsilentauction.Proceedsgotowardscholarshipsforcopyeditingstudents.
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LEFT:OutgoingVicePresident/ConferencesLisaMcLendonispresentedwithrosesatthe
closeoftheconference.ABOVE:Attendeeslistentooneofthebreakoutsessionpresenters.CHRISTINE STEELE PHOTO
MARK ALLEN PHOTOS
TheACESEducationFundspellingbee,heldthenightbeforetheconference
began,raised$831forscholarships.ABOVE:Contestantslinethefrontof
therowasthebeebegins.RIGHT:BeewinnerAmyGoldsteinlistenstoher
wordasrunner-upLisaMcLendonlookson.
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ACES announced the
winners of its annual headline
contest during the opening
session of the 18th annual
conference in Las Vegas.
ACES’ premier contest
aims to reward good headline
writing in newspapers,
nonnewspaper publications,
websites, and now even
Twitter.
Individual winners in
professional categories could
win up to $300. Winners in
student categories could win
up to $125.
Winning headlines were
published in 2013.
To view PDFs of the
winning headlines, go online
to the headline contest story
on vegas.copydesk.org and
click on the title of the entry
category.
First place winners were:
200+ circulation,
INDIVIDUAL
Jim Webster,
The Washington Post
100-200 circulation,
INDIVIDUAL
Rich Mills,
Omaha World-Herald
0-100 circulation,
INDIVIDUAL
Peter Donahue,
Providence Journal
ONLINE, INDIVIDUAL
Gael Fashingbauer Cooper,
Today.com.
NON-NEWSPAPER,
INDIVIDUAL
Hugh Garvey, Playboy
200+ circulation, STAFF
San Francisco Chronicle
100-200 circulation,
STAFF
The Virginian-Pilot
0-100 circulation, STAFF
Daily Herald
ONLINE, STAFF
NPR
STUDENT, STAFF
The Daily Tar Heel
• http://vegas.copydesk.org/great-headlines-earn-copy-edi-
tors-cash-and-kudos-in-annual-aces-contest/
WINNERS LIST ONLINE
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Conference attendees
have fun while raising
scholarship dollars
By KAITLYN KLEIN
ACES student member,
University of Kansas
Copyeditors fill the room
across the hall from the
banquet, ACES President
Teresa Schmedding shouts,
“15 minutes” and the chatter
continues.
In 15 minutes, the bidding
ends at the silent auction of
more than 200 items donated
to help raise money for the
ACES Education Fund.
The result: nearly $4,000
from the bidding. Add that to
the $575 raised in a live auc-
tion for a donated iPad, $836
raised in Wednesday night’s
spelling bee and $7,800 from
table donation pledges, and
that’s more than $13,500
raised for scholarships.
And the fundraising con-
tinued after the conference.
ACES 2014 presenter Steve
Buttry, digital transforma-
tion editor at Digital First
Media, did a crowdsourced
fundraiser for the ACES
Education Fund on a dare
from Washington Post
columnist Gene Weingarten.
Weingarten wanted Buttry
to change the name of his
blog, The Buttry Diary.
Weingarten tweeted
asking his followers to “to
overwhelm @stevebuttry
with entreaties to REALLY
change the blog to ‘Mmm.
Smooth, Buttry Goodness.’
It’s way butter. Er, better.”
So Buttry started a Crowd-
rise campaign to change the
name with the money going
to the ACES Education fund.
The campaign raised $725 for
the Education Fund before
Buttry returned to the blog’s
original name after a month.
Currently, the Education
Fund funds five scholar-
ships a year for a total of
$6,500. However, Merrill
Perlman, president of the
ACES Education Fund,
hopes that ACES can expand
its scholarship offerings in
the future. The generosity of
ACES members and friends
can make that happen.
So what great items did
you miss at the auction?
Cutest prize — A stuffed
momma and baby panda and
tote from the San Diego Zoo.
Vegas souvenir — Typo’ed
Vegas shirt.
For the 21 and up members
— Acronym wine.
Celebrity swag — signed
copies of Grammar Girl’s
word lists.
It’s the New York Times
— my personal favorite N.Y.
Times swag was the totes,
but there were also some
great crossword-themed
items.
Best bling — who doesn’t
want a semicolon dangling
from each ear?
Comic relief — no one
appreciates a grammar joke
more than the attendees of
ACES.
If you plan to come back
to the ACES gathering next
year, be sure to keep your
eye out for items like these
that your fellow copy editors
might enjoy.
Save them, donate them
and buy them, while also
contributing to a great cause.
11. COPYDESK.ORG MAY-JUNE 2014 AMERICAN COPY EDITORS SOCIETY 11
By ROBERT TRISHMAN
ACES member since 2013
Providingattributionandlinkstoin-
formationinonlinecopyismorethanjust
theright,ethicalthingtodo—italsohelps
raiseawebsite’sprofile,authorityandcred-
ibility.
ThatwastheadmonitionofKarenMar-
twick’sACES2014presentation“Linking
Attribution,AggregationandPlagiarism–
CredibilityintheDigitalAge”
Martwick,editorandcontentstrategist
forTravelPortland,outlinedwhyattri-
butionmatters,whenandwheretolink
forattribution,therightwaytolinkout,
andtoolsforverificationandplagiarism
prevention.
Shesaidattributionandlinkingareim-
portantforanyonewhopostscopyonline.
“Youneedtoapplythesamerigorous
standardstoonlineasyouwouldtoaprint
piece,”Martwicksaid.
“Whetheryou’reworkinginjournalism
ornot,attributionisvitaltomaintaining
yourcredibilityandmaintainingyouraudi-
ence,”sheadded.
Plagiarismcanbeadangerwhenrepro-
ducingpressreleasesverbatim,Martwick
said.
“Copyandpastehappens,andit’sconve-
nient,”shesaid.
However,shereferredtothebook“Tell-
ing the Truth and Nothing But,” published
in2013fortheAmericanCopyEditors
Society,specificallytoguidelinesfrom
thechapter “ShowyourWork”bySteve
Buttry.
“Whenyoucopyandpaste,beforeyou
pasteit…alwayscheckthesource,”the
chapterreads.
Ifcopyingandpastingfromapress
releaseontoyourwebsite,settingaside
thepassageinquotemarks—orinblock
quotes,forWordPressusers—withalink
isagoodpractice,butit’sbettertowrite
newcopybasedontheinformationinthe
release.
It’simportanttoletreadersandeditors
checkoutthesourceforthemselves,she
said.
Whileavoidingplagiarismisavital
reasontoattribute,Martwicksaid,adding
authoritativelinksalsocanhelpawebsite’s
SEOperformance.
Sheillustratedwhatconstitutesan
authoritativelinkwithawebpagesheput
togetheraboutOregon’sMultnomahFalls.
Martwicksaidshewantedtoprovidealink
aboutthefalls.AGooglesearchyielded
whatshecalledseveral“spammy”results,
butsheultimatelydecidedontheU.S.For-
estService’sofficialpageforthenaturesite.
Martwicksaidthatlinkingtoreliable
sitesprovidescontext,acknowledgesoth-
ers’work,showsthatyou’vedoneyour
research,andestablishesyourauthority.
“Ifyouvalueyourreaders,youshould
givethemaccesstotheinformationyou
usedtocreateyourpage,”shesaid.
Thisinstanceprovedvaluableinthepage
onTravelPortland’swebsite.Martwick
saidtherewasalinktoabridgethat’spart
ofthefallsarea,butitwasdamagedbya
fallingboulder,soshehadtogobackand
updatethestory,addingalinktothesource
thatbrokethestoryandaforestservice
alertlink.
Martwickcautioned,however,against
usinglinksinonlinecopyjustforthesake
ofusinglinks.Sheofferedguidelineson
whenlinksshouldbeused.
Linksaremostuseful,shesaid,when
readersmightGoogleareference,ifone
ormorephrasesareusedverbatimfroma
source,whenanothersourceprovidesgood
information,or,particularlyforjournalism,
whenanothersourcebrokethestory.
“Putyourselfintheuser’splaceandask,
‘AmImakingitcleareroramImakingit
moreconfusingforthem?’”Martwicksaid.
Whenlinksareused,shesaid,they
shouldbetothemostrelevantpagepos-
sible,whichMartwicksaidisa“deeplink”
ratherthanjusttoahomepage.Links
shouldalsoleadtoreliableandauthorita-
tivesources,tooriginalsources,andto
relatedinformationonyourownsite,or
internallinks.
Includingoutboundlinkstoauthorita-
tive“non-spammy”sites,shesaid,raises
yoursite’svalueinGoogle’seyes,increases
oddsofreciprocallinks,and“atthevery
leastitdoesn’thurtyourSEO.”
Also,linksrequiregood“anchortext,”
concise,descriptivephrasesorsentences
thattellyouwhatyou’relinkingto,busi-
nessandpublicationnames,andthefirst
referenceofanyURLinyourcopy.
Martwickrecommended“The Veri-
fication Handbook,”editedbyPoynter
Institute’sCraigSilverman,forverifying
digitalcontent,availableforfreedownload
atverificationhandbook.com.
“Youarekindofthegatekeeperthat
needstostandupandletpeopleknowit’s
notOK”toleaveorperpetuateerrorsona
website,Martwicksaid.
RobertTrishmanisacopyeditoratthe
DeseretNewsinSaltLakeCity,Utah.
Posting,linkingandattributing
When editors provide reliable links it gives
readers context, acknowledges other’s work
ACES members will have an opportunity to get discounted training on reader engagement and online corrections through the Poynter
Institute’s News University. Members can view the replay of “9 Ways You Drive Readers Away,” which was held May 7, and attend
“Online and Social Media Corrections” on May 22 through the ACES member discount program.
Using the ACES webinar code, members pay only $9.95. This is a $20 discount. Use code: 12PACES995
- See more at: http://www.copydesk.org/blog/2014/04/30/newsu-webinars-on-reader-engagement-online-corrections-discounted-
for-aces-members
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12. 12 AMERICAN COPY EDITORS SOCIETY MAY-JUNE 2014 COPYDESK.ORG
By NAÏF BARTLETT
ACES student member, University of Missouri
Nobody’s perfect.
If copy editors were, we wouldn’t
need a constantly updated stylebook to
keep us in line. If everyone else were,
they wouldn’t need copy editors to keep
them in line.
As the mass tweeting over The As-
sociated Press’ new rules on the usage
of “more than” and “over” showed,
we copy editors love rules, and old
habits die hard. The bustling nature
of journalism is counterproductive to
the work we do and the rules we try to
master. Sometimes it can be just as easy
for veterans to make mistakes as it is
for rookies.
Everyone develops blind spots. The
Washington Post’s Bill Walsh spoke
about some blind spots at the ACES
2014 national conference.
Here are some tips Walsh gave to
help veterans avoid easy mistakes:
• Watch subject and verb agree-
ment: Watch out for sentences with
multiple nouns.
“Bob is one of those people who hates
cats.” Apart from Bob’s unnecessary
negativity toward little, furry geniuses,
Bob would be one of those people who
hate cats. Walsh made the point that
grammar sticklers will want to pick
the first, but the second has the correct
verb agreement.
• Watch out for danglers.
• Be specific: “An Illinois senator
introduced a tax cut bill last January.”
Which January? Walsh said close to an
equal number of copy editors will argue
for January of this year or January of
last year.
• Adjectives of equal weight get
commas: “A big, fat lie.” No, this
rule isn’t a lie. “Big” and “fat” equally
modify “lie” and need a comma.
• Hyphenate with care: Walsh
touched on these twice. First, copy edi-
tors know adverbs ending in -ly don’t
need a hyphen
before another
word. However,
make sure you
are dealing
with an adverb.
“Early-morning
rain” needs a
hyphen.
Second,
be careful
when adding
hyphens to
multiple modi-
fiers. Walsh
used these as
examples:
Anti-child
abuse plans
A town hall-
style meeting
A non-high school friend
An anti-gay discrimination bill
Because adding one hyphen can create
ambiguity, Walsh recommended adding
both.
• Watch the “The”: Proper names
may capitalize the “The” — as in “The
Tonight Show” and “The Washington
Post” — but you don’t need to in the
middle of a sentence. There are also
times when it is appropriate to drop the
word completely.
• Use caution when cutting “that”
out: Taking out the word “that” can
mislead the reader for a few seconds. He
declared his love for her… had died.
• Cops talk like cops: They’ll say a
suspect was transported to a local hos-
pital. Wait, you mean the suspect wasn’t
taken to a hospital 200 miles away?
“Oh, what a novel idea,” Walsh said in
his presentation. There’s no need to use
cop-speak in stories.
While Walsh was on the subject of
cops, he also brought up the inconsis-
tencies and contradictions with the
word “suspect.” He pointed out that
stories will provide the police’s descrip-
tion of the suspect, and then they will
end with, “Police have no suspects.”
Journalists constantly reach for the
word “suspect,” Walsh said, because
of the fear of libel for calling somebody
a killer. However, if a story says, “The
suspect did this and that,” and the story
then says, “John Smith was arrested as
a suspect,” it is still libeling him.
• Don’t go backward in numbers:
The measure failed, 48-52. The team
lost, 90-91. Both of these examples are
incorrect. Members of the audience
brought up that they had seen this
done many times, but Walsh (and most
people in attendance) agreed it is the
incorrect method.
• Don’t mix typography with an
official name: Journalists do not need
to follow the conventions and typog-
raphy used for titles of works of art
such as books, songs and movies. For
example, Pharrell Williams has a song
called “G I R L.” Must news outlets put
spaces in between every letter? Walsh:
“No.”
• Readers are stupid, but not that
stupid: Any pointless addition that
implies readers are stupid is unneces-
sary. For example: (President Barack)
Obama. Walsh also noted that ellipses
in quotations are to be avoided, as are
parenthetical notations — and a combi-
nation of the two should be avoided at
all costs.
• Be careful when quoting dialects:
There’s a risk of playing favorites here.
Are you only going to quote lower-
income people that way?
“It’s ethically fraud,” Walsh said.
While copy editors are creatures of
habit, we aren’t necessarily opposed
to change. Walsh drew applause from
much of the audience when he professed
near the end of his session to be a fan of
the singular “they.”
He also said he’d like to see “whom”
phased out because it sounds antique.
Old habits die hard, but when change
is made in the name of copy-editing
perfection, anything goes.
BACKTOBASICS
Bill Walsh shares some of the blind spots copy editors have
MARK ALLEN PHOTO
WashingtonPost
multiplatformeditor
BillWalshisauthor
of“Lapsinginto
aComma,”“The
ElephantsofStyle,”
and“Yes,ICouldCare
Less.”
13. COPYDESK.ORG MAY-JUNE 2014 AMERICAN COPY EDITORS SOCIETY 13
And the honorees are ...
Freelance copy editor, mentor
Katharine O’Moore-Klopf
wins Robinson Prize
Many copy editors know Katharine
O’Moore-Klopf even though they’ve never
met her.
O’Moore-Klopf has been a resource for
copy editors long distance through her
Copyeditors Knowledge Base online.
That contribution to copy editors ev-
erywhere is among the reasons freelance
copy editor O’Moore-Klopf was selected as
winner of the American Copy Editors’ 2013
Robinson Prize.
The prize recognizes substantial con-
tributions to the craft of copy editing and
excellence in overall copy editing skills.
O’Moore-Klopf received the award during
the 18th annual ACES national conference
Friday, March 21, in Las Vegas.
O’Moore-Klopf, of Long Island, N.Y.,
has made helping others an intricate part
of her job since she established her full-
time freelancing business in 1995. She has
focused on medical editing, and she has
a reputation for working with foreign-
language doctors and other scientists
to publish important work in English-
language journals.
In late April, she will
teach at the Jishuitan
Orthopaedic Forum in
Beijing, helping young
physicians write better
English and navigate the
U.S. journal-publishing
system.
Maintaining and clari-
fying the client’s voice,
she says, is key to copy editing, she says on
her website biography:
”In my first professional job, I was a
reporter for a midsize Texas newspaper,
where I observed talented editors polish-
ing writers’ prose, including mine, without
removing their voice from it. When I
moved to the publishing industry, I was
determined to do the same.”
Her clients say her work reflects that
determination.
“Kathy is sensitive to giving my voice its
fullest expression while she also skillfully
and meticulously edits my work,” wrote
author Gen LaGreca. “She is a great com-
municator, as well, making it a joy to work
with her. When Kathy has finished editing
my work, I can be confident it will meet the
highest professional standards and also
reflect exactly what I want to say.”
O’Moore-Klopf’s regularly updated
Copyeditors’ Knowledge Base website
at www.kokedit.com/ckb.php contains
hundreds of annotated links; it may be the
most useful index of its kind. One of the
judges noted that “her website is a treasure
trove of information from which editors
the world over can benefit.”
O’Moore-Klopf actively contributes to
several copy-editing organizations, includ-
ing ACES, the American Medical Writers
Association, the Editorial Freelancers As-
sociation, and the Board of Editors in the
Life Sciences, for which she is a certified
editor. She has contributed newsletter ar-
ticles to these organizations, and she runs
the Twitter account for BELS.
Mark Long, for whom she edited several
technical books when he was publisher at
Texas State Technical College, wrote: “I
can think of no better ambassador for the
copy editing profession than Katharine
O’Moore-Klopf.”
The Robinson Prize, which was first
awarded for the 2005 calendar year, is
named for Pam Robinson, a cofounder of
ACES and the society’s first president. The
winner receives $3,000 and an engraved
glass plaque.
Alex Cruden honored
with Glamann Award
Alex Crudenwas named the sixth recipi-
ent of the American Copy Editors Society’s
Glamann Award at the Society’s national
conference March 21 in Las Vegas.
The Glamann Award is named for Hank
Glamann, ACES co-founder and a former
national board member. The award recog-
nizes people and organizations that have
contributed to the Society and the craft of
copy editing. Each year’s recipient is cho-
sen by the Executive Committee of ACES.
Cruden retired from the Detroit Free
Press in 2008 as its chief editor of the copy
desks, ending a 35-year editing career with
the paper that he started shortly after he
graduated from Hamilton College in 1968.
Cruden has led countless seminars at
ACES conferences and workshops and
elsewhere. He most notably moderated a
session at several ACES conferences called
“Inside Readers’ Heads,”
where he invited aver-
age readers to comment
on headlines seen in
newspapers. Welcoming
readers’ candid views by
emphasizing that what
they say is always right,
he provided news copy
editors with valuable
insights on how readers
really respond to headlines, often contrary
to the many rules copy editors had been
taught for decades.
Former Free Press colleagues praised
Cruden as they recalled their years work-
ing with him.
“The way he conveyed his lessons
wasn’t just that it was important to his
rules or even the newspaper’s rules, but
that it was the reader who was of the ut-
most importance,” wrote Free Press copy
editor Janet Graham.
Wrote Free Press Managing Editor Julie
Topping: “When I had some questions on
a story he had edited, I was warned to be
careful. But Alex turned out to be the most
thoughtful, helpful content editor I had
worked with since my arrival at the Free
Press as a youngster.”
And wrote longtime colleague Javan
Kienzle: “His concern for grammatical cor-
rectness has been equaled by his concern
for his fellow copy editors. For Alex was
also an educator, and in correcting others,
he knew that encouragement can be one of
the best teachers.”
Cruden, still living in Detroit, is now
vice president of ACES’ Education Fund
and a founding member of ACES, which
was formed in 1997. He has overseen the
Fund’s scholarship program.
The American Copy Editors Society
shares Kienzle’s sentiment: “I can think
of no one worthier than Alex Cruden to
receive this prestigious award. The award
itself acquires even more honor and luster
in being presented to Alex.”
KATHARINE
O’MOORE-KLOPF
ALEX
CRUDEN
14. 14 AMERICAN COPY EDITORS SOCIETY MAY-JUNE 2014 COPYDESK.ORG
By PETER PARISI
ACES member since 2000
Empowered by what you learned at ACES 2014 in Las Vegas,
you can test your freshly enhanced editing skills by detecting
and correcting the mistakes, grammatical and otherwise, in
these actual examples taken from news stories and commentary
columns. In honor of the “more than/over” ruling, our house
style for this quiz is Associated Press style:
1. A 1989 Government Accountability Office report found
that “[a]liens have nothing to lose by failing to appear for
hearings and, in effect, ignoring the deportation process.”
2. President Obama flew to Ann Arbor Wednesday, where the
jobless rate is close to 8 percent to boast about his eco-
nomic policies.
3. California state Sen. Leland Yee, an outspoken advocate
for gun control, has been indicted for arms trafficking and
public corruption.
4. The NBC report maintained that he was actually a Sudan-
born driver and confidante of Omar Abdel-Rahman, the so-
called “blind sheik” tied to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade
Center in New York.
5. Herbert Croly (1869-1930) is not a household name in fed-
eral governmental circles today, nor was he so in 1914 when
he published a book entitled “Progressive Democracy.”
6. In a vigorous economy such as South Korea or the Czech
Republic, manufacturing contributes at least 20 percent of
gross domestic product. In Russia, that figure is 15 percent.
7. The Ukraine government has already accused Moscow of
triggering unrest and dissension in the region to justify an
invasion, just as they did in Crimea.
8. The programming language of the World Wide Web is Eng-
lish. This has greatly strengthened the position of English
as the lingua franca of the digital age, but ICANN has been trying
to undo this and balkanize the online community.
9. In Poland, where Solidarity leaders endured marshal law, I
watched courage surface to confront violent suppression of
basic liberty.
10. On Wednesday, Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican,
told a state committee in Frankfurt that restoring voting
rights for nonviolent felons is a positive step toward changing the
nation’s flawed “war on drugs.”
ANSWERS
1.In 1989, the auditing arm of Congress known today as
the Government Accountability Office was still known
as the General Accounting Office. Its name was changed in
July 2004, but the name change didn’t affect its acronym,
GAO.
2.The time element, Wednesday, needs to be moved to
enable the restrictive clause (“where ... “) to follow Ann
Arbor. The “Wednesday” can be placed after the “flew.”
3.We don’t want to convict Mr. Yee before trial, so that
should be “indicted on charges of,” instead of “indicted
for.” See the “indicted” entry in the AP Stylebook.
4.Since “he,” and not “she,” was the driver, he was a con-
fidant, not a confidante.
5.Croly was entitled to call his book anything he wanted
to, but it’s titled, not entitled, “Progressive Democracy.”
See the “entitled” entry in the AP Stylebook.
6.South Korea and the Czech Republic are countries, not
economies, so this should read “economy such as that
of” or “economy such as South Korea’s or the Czech Repub-
lic.”
7.This is a two-fer. First, the antecedent, whether it’s
Ukraine or Moscow, is singular, so the “they” should be
“it.” Additionally, the sentence is not clear which (Moscow or
Ukraine) the “it” refers back to, and should be rewritten ac-
cording to clarify that.
8.“Balkanize” should be uppercased. According to Web-
ster’s New World College Dictionary, the official diction-
ary of the AP, Balkanize as a verb meaning “to break up into
small, mutually hostile political units, as the Balkans after
WWI,” should be capitalized.
9.It may require a marshal to enforce it, but it’s martial,
not marshal, law.
10. If Mr. Paul is addressing a committee in Germany,
Frankfurt is correct. But if he’s doing it in Kentucky, it’s
Frankfort, with an “o.”
Scoring key:
0-3: J-school dropout
4-6: Snoozed through copy-editing classes
7-8: Candidate for promotion to slot
9-10: Copy-desk chief
Quiz yourself: Think you picked up some knowledge at ACES2014?
Then find the errors in these passages *
* we’re using AP style here; your style may vary
15. By PAUL CHEVANNES
ACES member since 2011
Aristophanes, a librarian in Alexan-
dria, Greece, during the third century
B.C. suggested that readers could use
middle, low and high points (dots) to
punctuate the written word as the rules
of rhetoric then dictated. And that was
the birth of punctuation.
Now, can you imagine a world with-
out marks — punctuation marks? It
would be like a flower whose bud could
not open, a useless quest for recognition
and appreciation.
One should never think of punctua-
tion marks as barriers, walls or check-
points but rather as a security blanket
for clarity — our ultimate goal being
communication.
A well-punctuated piece of prose is as
welcoming as a lovely morning coffee,
or like a charming French slogan that I
recently came across, which read “Cou-
cou, tu as pris le pain?” (“Hi there, have
you had your bread/baguette?”)
Let’s trace the roots of a few punctua-
tion marks:
Ampersand
The ampersand is the regal queen of
marks in my opinion. It is a favorite of
graphic designers who also use it as a
decorative element.
This queen started out life in Rome,
Italy, centuries ago. The symbol means
“and,” the Latin word being et, hence its
classical shape, a configuration of the
“e” and “t” joined in harmony. A mark
of unquestionable aesthetics.
@ Mark
Like the ampersand, this is techni-
cally not a punctuation mark, but has
been adopted over the years as such.
They are called logograms or gramma-
logues. The @ mark, a most ergonomi-
cally designed one, is used to represent
the word “at.” It was previously rarely
used, but has become a global superstar
— thanks to the Internet.
Dash
Ah, yes, we are all experts on dashes,
except for the swung dash that’s been
out of vogue for a while and all but for-
gotten (the seductive ellipsis has taken
over in modern times).
The swung dash was traditionally
used to indicate the omission of a word
or part of a word. This mark has never
lost its luster in Japan. It is also used a
lot by graphic designers as a decorative
element (dingbat).
Although it looks like a tilde, its us-
age must never be confused.
Hyphen
This punctuation mark has caused
great consternation amongst experts
and novices alike.
A hyphen can be as critical as being
on life-support, as both the literary and
legal professions can attest. Even U.S.
presidents have gotten in on the act
— Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow
Wilson reprimanded fellow citizens
overusing hyphenated ethnic jargon,
for example, German-Americans, Irish-
Americans, etc., for their perceived
divided loyalties to the United States.
And of course, there’s NASA’s miss-
ing hyphen that led to the absolute
failure of Mariner 1, America’s first
interplanetary probe of Venus. The
missing hyphen in coding used to set
trajectory and speed caused the space-
craft to explode a few minutes after
takeoff — at a price tag of $80 million.
“2001: A Space Odyssey” novelist
Arthur C. Clarke referred to it as “the
most expensive hyphen in history.”
Pilcrow
A favorite punctuation mark of mine,
but unfortunately long defunct. How-
ever, a trace of it is left — even though it
has been relegated to a mere proofread-
ers’ mark. It is a reverse-P shape with
two vertical bars instead of the usual
one. This mark means to begin a new
paragraph.
The Romans adopted the pilcrow
from the Greeks in the late second and
early third centuries B.C. This mark
was used between words as there were
no spaces between words then, and
previously dots (miniature bullets)
had been used. Apparently this was
for fashionable reasons rather than for
practicality.
Asterisk
The utility player in the punctuation
world, it never fails to hit a home run,
as well as some grand slams, too.
Its illustrious history harkens back
to Alexandria, Egypt, in the fourth cen-
tury B.C. It is probably one of the oldest
punctuation marks still around today.
The word asterisk is taken from the
Latin aster, meaning “star,” but that
was derived from the original Greek
word asteriskos, or “little star.”
Its versatility leads to at least eight
different usages. One of my favorites is
called “asterism” — three asterisks in
a triangular formation. Its three main
usages are: to indicate minor breaks in
text, to call attention to a passage, and
to separate sub-chapters in a book.
There is a derivative of asterism
that is called a “dinkus,” where there
are three consecutive asterisks, all in
a straight row. Beware of the word’s
slang usage.
So, you can see why this “little star” is
such a big star.
Paul Chevannes is the supervisor for
copy editing/proofreading at Tiffany &
Company.
COPYDESK.ORG MAY-JUNE 2014 AMERICAN COPY EDITORS SOCIETY 15
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Vignettes on signs, symbols that grace our writing
Meet my friends, Ampersand and Pilcrow.
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Thisyear’sEACnationalconference,
withthetheme“TrackingChange:e-Merg-
ingMethodsandMarkets,”issetforJune
6-8attheLiKaShingKnowledgeInstitute
indowntownToronto.Itwillexplorethe
changingfaceofeditingandwhatitmeans
foreditorsandtheirwork.Memberscan
registerbyvisitinghttp://www.editors.ca/
conference2014/registrationandselecting
ACESastheregistrationtype.
ACES’EditingBootCamplineupfor
2014includesaworkshopAug.5attheLe
CentreSheratonHotelinMontreal.EAC
memberscanattendattheACESdiscount-
edmemberrate.Registrationisavailable
athttp://workshops.copydesk.org/event/
montreal/.
Partnershipincreasestrainingopportunities
ACES forms alliance with
Editors’ Association of Canada
