Copy editors: Friend or faux? 

Thrilled to see that the New York City premiere of my pal Ellen Jovin's new documentary about her efforts to bring her traveling Grammar...

  Always a treat when my brother's legacy is publicly remembered. On a related note: My fellow judges and I are in the midst of picking ...

I don't see Covid-19 ever taking on the stigma of an AIDS diagnosis -- certainly not an automatic death sentence like it was befo...

Congrats, indeed! My brother Bill’s love of language lives on through outstanding young editors like her. Note the person who liked the tw...

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Max Mutchnick -- about whom I happened to hear two of his former restaurant coworkers talking about his "new show" that was goi...

Another bittersweet Bill moment, seeing how the auction of his tie collection at the ACES conference earlier this year in Chicago -- to...

Oh, Gray Lady. Your copy-desk massacre rears its ugly head again. I see FOUR correctable errors in this (nicely written) piece :  ...

From HERE .

With new friends Sarah and David Great couple of days at the #ACES2018 conference in Chicago, meeting so many nice people who loved ...

Just a heads-up to my fellow copy-editor friends and cohorts around the country that I have made an 11th-hour decision to go to Chicago ...

"Men don't make passes at boys who don't use apostrophes." -- Dorothy Parker, wasn't it? (As seen on a mailbox on...

Hyphens matter. (Follow me on Instagram HERE .)

Proud but bittersweet moment as the University of Arizona School of Journalism has officially announced that my brother Bill is a membe...

It appears World War III is officially under way. Never imagined this would be the cause, though. #punctuationmatters 

THIS is why newspapers need lots of editors. And talk about a missed photo opportunity. The story was mostly about an 18-year-old...