List of American copy editors

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

• Beryl Adcock, copy desk chief of McClatchy Newspapers Washington bureau
• Theodore M. Bernstein, former editor of the New York Times and author of The Careful Writer, Watch Your Language and several other books on grammar and usage
• Sue Blair, retired copy desk chief of Time magazine and member of the American Copy Editors Society executive board
• Phillip Blanchard, copy editor at The Washington Post and founder of Testy Copy Editors [1]
• Bill Cloud, who 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 Detroit Free Press
• William G. Connolly, co-author of The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage and 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 and copy editor at the Los Angeles Times
• Tom Mangan, copy editor at the San Jose Mercury News who 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 and author of the blog "You Don't Say"
• Merrill Perlman, director of The New York Times' copy desks and 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 of USA Today
• Nicole Stockdale, proprietor of the blog "A Capital Idea" [2]
• David Sullivan, assistant managing editor, in charge of the copy desks, at The Philadelphia Inquirer and current board member for the American Copy Editors Society
• Mike Waller, former publisher of The Baltimore Sun
• Barbara Wallraff, former editor of Copy Editor newsletter [3] and author of several editing books
• Bill Walsh, of The Slot [4] and author of Lapsing into a Comma and Elephants of Style
• Chris Wienandt, business copy desk chief at The Dallas Morning News and president of the American Copy Editors Society

References

• Report from the 1997 ACES Conference
• Executive board of the American Copy Editors Society