List of American Copy Editors

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

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.
  • Beryl Adcock – copy desk chief of McClatchy Newspapers Washington bureau
  • Theodore M. Bernstein – former editor of The New York Times; author of The Careful Writer, Watch Your Language and several other books on grammar and usage
  • Sue Blair – retired copy desk chief of Time; member of the American Copy Editors Society executive board
  • Phillip Blanchard – copy editor at The Washington Post; founder of Testy Copy Editors
  • Bill Cloud – 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 the Detroit Free Press
  • William G. Connolly – co-author of The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage; 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 Fund
  • Gerald "Tim" Lynch – winner of the 2006 Robinson Prize for Excellence in Copy Editing from ACES; copy editor at the Los Angeles Times
  • Tom Mangan – copy editor at the San Jose Mercury News; blogged on copy-editing issues at "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; author of the blog You Don't Say of The Baltimore Sun
  • Merrill Perlman – director of The New York Times copy desks; professor at the Columbia University Graduate 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 Manual of Style and Usage; retired
  • Paul Soucy – winner of the American Copy Editors Society's inaugural Robinson Prize for Excellence in Copy Editing in 2005; formerly with USA Today
  • Nicole Stockdale – proprietor of the blog A Capital Idea
  • David Sullivan – assistant managing editor, in charge of the copy desks at The Philadelphia Inquirer; board member for the American Copy Editors Society
  • Mike Waller – former publisher of The Baltimore Sun
  • Barbara Wallraff – former editor of Copy Editor newsletter ; author of several editing books
  • Bill Walsh – copy editor of The Slot ; author of Lapsing into a Comma and Elephants of Style
  • Chris Wienandt – business copy desk chief at The Dallas Morning News; president of the American Copy Editors Society

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