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unusual facts about copy editor



Louis D. Rubin, Jr.

In his years at Hopkins, a period during which he married Eva Redfield in 1951 and worked part-time as a newspaper copy editor, Rubin studied under poet Elliott Coleman and historian C. Vann Woodward, served as editor of The Hopkins Review, and taught creative writing (an early student was novelist John Barth).


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Andrew J. Offutt

They have four children; author Chris Offutt, Jeff Offutt, Professor of Software Engineering at George Mason University, Scotty Hyde, copy editor for the Park City Daily News in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and Melissa Offutt, who is a sales executive for Sprint in San Diego.

George W. Daley

When the World closed its doors in 1931, Mr. Daley went to work for The New York Times as a copy editor in the sports department until his death in 1952.

Indalecio Prieto

This led to a position as a copy editor and later a journalist at the rival daily El Liberal.

Lydia Millet

Millet's fourth novel, Everyone's Pretty (2005), is a picaresque tragicomedy about an alcoholic pornographer with messianic delusions, based partly on Millet's stint as a copy editor at Larry Flynt Publications.

Nick Boddie Williams

He worked for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, The Tennessean in Nashville and the Los Angeles Express before joining the Times in 1931 as a copy editor.

Steven Sills

He remained in Japan for 4 years and worked as a copy editor at The Japan Times, a freelance magazine writer and an expat stand up comic.

Studio Ironcat

During the post-Kimura restructuring by Kanzaki and the Bennetts, Office assistant Kathryn Hofer left in January 2000 due to lack of pay and bias treatment, Chief Graphics Designer and Copy Editor Mark Hofmann departed in June 2000, citing an issue with internal, "high-school" company politics and lack of pay.

Warren E. Preece

Before joining Britannica he worked as a newspaper reporter and copy editor, an English teacher, and public relations director for U.S. Senator Thomas Dodd of Connecticut.