Copyediting at newspapers—or the lack thereof.

My former journalism professor Carl Sessions Stepp discusses the impact of the lack of copyeditors at newspapers in the April/May 2009 issue of the American Journalism Review.

And speaking of the need for copyeditors: Look here (under "Take 2") at a headline that could have badly used a copyeditor.

Grammar noir.

Over on the blog You Don't Say is Baltimore Sun copyeditor John E. McIntyre's attempt to combine proper grammar with hardboiled patter: "Down those mean sentences I walk alone."

(Hat tip to Keir Graff's Likely Stories.)