List of American copy editors

This is a list of some notable current and former American copy editors.

*Beryl Adcock, copy desk chief of McClatchy Newspaper's Washington bureau
*Theodore M. Bernstein, former editor of the New York Times and author of "The Careful Writer", "Watch Your Language" and several other books on grammar and usage
*Kelly B. Muniz, travel writer, former copy desk chief at Wyndham Vacation Ownership, author of the Wyndham Vacation Resorts style guide and public relations copywriter at the Orlando/Orange County Convention and Visitors Bureau, the second-largest CVB in the United States
*Sue Blair, retired copy desk chief of Time magazine and member of the American Copy Editors Society executive board
*Phillip Blanchard, copy editor at The Washington Post and founder of Testy Copy Editors [http://www.testycopyeditors.org/]
*Bill Cloud, who runs the mid-career institute for copy editors at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
*Alex Cruden, chief editor of the copy desks at Detroit Free Press
*William G. Connolly, co-author of The New York Times style guide and member of the American Copy Editors Society executive board
*Hank Glamann, two-time winner of the John Murphy Award for Excellence in Copy Editing and co-founder of the American Copy Editors Society
*Rich Holden, executive director of the Dow Jones Newspaper FundFact|date=February 2007
*Gerald "Tim" Lynch, winner of the 2006 Robinson Prize for Excellence in Copy Editing from ACES and copy editor at the Los Angeles Times
*Tom Mangan, copy editor at the San Jose Mercury News who blogged on copy-editing issues at [http://tommangan.net/printsthechaff/ "Prints The Chaff"]
*Mindy McAdams, early Web developer for The Washington Post
*Melissa McCoy, deputy managing editor, in charge of copy desks and design, at the Los Angeles Times
*John McIntyre assistant managing editor for the copy desk at The Baltimore Sun, a past president of the American Copy Editors Society and author of the blog [http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/mcintyre/blog/ "You Don't Say"]
*Merrill Perlman, director of The New York Times' copy desks and professor at the Columbia School of Journalism
*Pam Robinson, co-founder and first president of the American Copy Editors Society
*Allan M. Siegal, co-author of The New York Times style guide, retired
*Paul Soucy, winner of the American Copy Editors Society's inaugural Robinson Prize for Excellence in Copy Editing in 2005, formerly of USA Today
*Nicole Stockdale, proprietor of the blog "A Capital Idea" [http://nstockdale.blogspot.com]
*David Sullivan, assistant managing editor, in charge of the copy desks, at the Philadelphia Inquirer and current board member for the American Copy Editors Society
*Mike Waller, former publisher of The Baltimore Sun
*Barbara Wallraff, former editor of Copy Editor newsletter [http://www.copyeditor.com] and author of several editing books
*Bill Walsh, of The Slot [http://www.theslot.com] and author of "Lapsing into a Comma" and "Elephants of Style"
*Chris Wienandt, business copy desk chief at The Dallas Morning News and president of the American Copy Editors Society

References

* [http://copydesk.org/conference/1997/reports.htm Report from the 1997 ACES Conference]
* [http://www.copydesk.org/executivecommittee.htm Executive board of the American Copy Editors Society]