Two editors recently shared some useful tips to help journalists detect and prevent mistakes. A selection of their advice is below, and be sure to read both articles. The first bit of accuracy advice ...

When you are reading an article, do typos jump off the page at you? Have you ever contacted (or wanted to contact) a newspaper or magazine to report an error? Do typos somehow sneak into your own ...

You, reporter/blogger, have been working on a story all day, and it's deadline time. You hope your story's free of typos and grammatical mistakes. But at this point, you've read it so many times, you ...

The year was 1997. ACES: The Society for Editing — formerly known as the American Copy Editors Society — was founded as a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting excellence in copy editing.

Every now and then, people ask me whether I actually enjoy my job. They point out that I spend hours at The Michigan Daily every week making others look better and ask me if, deep down, I’d rather ...

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