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Letter From the Editor: Why You Might Want to Consider Contributing to The Editors’ Weekly

August 23, 2022 | Filed under: Lucy Payette

Dear readers, These past two-plus years, I’ve kept good company with authors, publishing leaders, instructors and professors, new and established freelancers, linguistics experts, translators, in-house and niche editors and many more, and most of it during a pandemic. At a time when many were feeling disconnected, I was having weekly …

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Editors Canada’s Professional Editorial Standards: Part 3

May 31, 2022 | Filed under: Berna Ozunal

Past, Present and Future — One Editor’s Perspective This is the final post in a three-part series about my thoughts and experiences as they pertain to Editors Canada’s Professional Editorial Standards (PES) and my ongoing work with the Editors Canada standards committee. In Part 2, I asked how PES might …

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Editors Canada’s Professional Editorial Standards: Part 2

March 1, 2022 | Filed under: Berna Ozunal

Past, Present and Future — One Editor’s Perspective This is the second in a three-part series about my thoughts and experiences as they pertain to Editors Canada’s Professional Editorial Standards (PES) and my ongoing work with the Editors Canada standards committee. In Part 2, I’ll look at some of the …

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Editors Canada’s Professional Editorial Standards: Part 1

February 1, 2022 | Filed under: Berna Ozunal

Past, Present and Future — One Editor’s Perspective This is a three-part series about my thoughts and experiences as they pertain to Editors Canada’s Professional Editorial Standards (PES) and my ongoing work with the Editors Canada standards committee. In Part 1, I’ll give some historical context of PES and discuss …

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January Is Mentoring Month: How Are We Doing?

January 25, 2022 | Filed under: Lucy Payette

In a nod to mentoring month, a movement formally recognized in the U.S. and gaining traction in Canada, let’s reflect on mentoring in the editing industry. Much has been written about mentoring in The Editors’ Weekly over the years, including the most recent post by Jennifer D. Foster on the …

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Editing in the Time of Covid

January 11, 2022 | Filed under: Rosemary Shipton

As we enter 2022, it’s time to ask how editors have fared during the pandemic and what lies ahead. When the world as we knew it suddenly shut down in March 2020, we feared for our health and our livelihoods, uncertain what might transpire. How have we done? For most …

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Searching for the Positive Side of Change

December 21, 2021 | Filed under: Lucy Payette

Many of my conversations of late have started with “I would have thought by now we would be … ” or “I’m not sure what the next few months will bring ….” This past year has been called many things: the Great Resignation, the Great Reshuffle, the second year of …

Editorial Self-Care: Managing Life Changes

April 2, 2019 | Filed under: Katharine O'Moore-Klopf

As editors, we tend to comfort ourselves by thinking that we have everything under control, because what is editing? It’s controlling the words. But control is an illusion. Style guides change. Our lives change. Life changes greatly affect the quality of our editing and our lives. What life changes might …

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