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Column: Copy editing yesterday and today

In decades past, I would use a “blue pencil” to edit stories written by writers, marking the stories, which would then be typeset by typists before being converted to “hot lead,” which would then be ...
The year was 1997. ACES: The Society for Editing — formerly known as the American Copy Editors Society — was founded as a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting excellence in copy editing.