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Emily Distefano

Emily Distefano: What’s on My Desk?

Thursday January 29, 2026

Welcome to our new series where we snoop through the workspaces of our fellow editors. This week, Emily Distefano, the newest member of our proofreading team at The Editors’ Weekly, tells us all about her desk essentials. Tools of the trade First, the basics: computer, glasses, office supplies. My current laptop is a sturdy Lenovo […]

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Letitia Henville

A Case Study in Content Marketing

Thursday April 9, 2026

I’m a big believer in content marketing. Done well, content marketing can support both your own business and our shared profession, because it shows potential clients what editors do and the wealth of knowledge we hold. When I’ve spoken with other editors about content marketing, I regularly encounter misconceptions: some folks assume it means they […]

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Lights, Camera, Action: A Book Editor in the Land of Cinema

Tuesday December 4, 2012

The first in a series on working as an editor in the film industry. In 1966, my older sister snuck me into the Windsor Theatre to see an R-rated movie, A Man and a Woman, starring Anouk Aimée as a script girl and Jean-Louis Trintignant as a car racer. After that, whenever someone asked me […]

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Victoria Neufeldt

New Words

Wednesday January 2, 2013

“New Words, Old Words, Shy Words, Bold Words” is a four-part series about English words and their origins. The end of a year brings thoughts of old and new words — and not only to us word birds, who throughout the year are tuned into what’s coming in and what’s fading out. It’s generally easier […]

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Gettable Grammar: Less is More

Tuesday January 15, 2013

Gettable Grammar is a monthly series of conjectures, opinions and postulates by Karen Virag. LESS IS MORE, NOT FEWER. EXCEPT SOMETIMES. The question of when to use fewer and when to use less perplexes many people. Generally speaking, you should use fewer to refer to a smaller number and less to refer to a smaller […]

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An older man appears to be reading a book. When we see anyone with a book, we assume they can read, and yet literacy can’t be assumed. Though this is Freedom to Read Week (2013), this EAC blog post for The Editors’ Weekly asks about the freedom to read—at all.

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Victoria Neufeldt

Old Words

Tuesday April 16, 2013

Old words are just as interesting as new words. But how old is old? We use a good number of words today that go all the way back to Old English, the language of the Germanic peoples who invaded and then settled in England in the fifth century A.D. These “native” words are some of […]

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DISPATCHES 4: What’s an Intern Worth?

Tuesday May 28, 2013

So now that you know what editorial interns do and you have some tips to get you started, I’m sure you’re wondering how the editorial staff really feels about interns. This question was burning in my mind when I started at Random House Canada. With so many interns coming in (up to eight a year in […]

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Going Out of Style

Tuesday June 18, 2013

It’s house style. I don’t think I fully appreciated the power of that sentence until I could no longer use it. As editors we’re constantly striving to balance the needs of the publisher, author and reader, but with the growth of self- and custom publishing, the needs of the publisher are becoming irrelevant in more […]

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