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What he said

If you are looking for an eloquent, sensible and persuasive explanation of the importance of copy editing, and the damage that the newspaper business is doing to itself, click over to David Sullivan's post at That's the Press, Baby, "Copy Editing: The WSJ Cuts Back."

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John McIntyre, mild-mannered copy editor for a great metropolitan newspaper, has fussed over writers’ work at The Baltimore Sun since 1986. He is the director of its copy desk, an affiliate faculty member at Loyola College of Maryland, a former president of the American Copy Editors Society, a native of Kentucky, a graduate of Michigan State and Syracuse, and a moderate prescriptivist. If you are inspired by a spirit of contradiction, comment on his posts or write to him at john.mcintyre@baltsun.com.

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