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		<title>Freelance editing: The pros and cons</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 23:14:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor’s note: High school journalism students at Mount Carmel Academy in New Orleans wrote stories about sessions they attended at the ACES national conference April 12-13. Following is one of those stories.. By Caitlin Demarest (Mount Carmel) Echoes Staff Writer, Class of 2013 New Orleans’ own Sheraton Hotel on Canal Street recently hosted the American [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What readers want — headline version</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gerri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A diverse panel of news readers tells copy editors that clarity and accuracy are most important in headlines &#8230; and skip those popular headlinese words like stymies and touts By Brooke Carbo The University of Alabama During the popular ACES conference session “Inside Readers’ Heads,” editing consultant Alex Cruden questioned a panel of seven New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Editing at a hub</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gerri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pam Nelson, formerly of the McClatchy Publishing Center in Charlotte, N.C., and Todd Kistler and Thom Wright of Los Angeles News Group, offered some advice for working at an editing hub during their session April 13 at the ACES national conference. The three talked about setup and workflow, adaptations they’ve needed to make, and how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The people who were happy to help</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The couple in the picture here are Rebecca and Richard Dyer, two of the many people we were fortunate to have helping us as volunteers. Look at them. They&#8217;re so happy. No, I mean they really are. They&#8217;re not just doing this for the camera; they&#8217;re always like this. They are, after all, from Arizona, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Honoring Bill Connolly</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gerri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two colleagues and friends of Lifetime Achievement Award winner Bill Connolly offer their thoughts on what the retired senior editor at The New York Times has meant to ACES and to copy editors everywhere. Text of Merrill Perlmann’s award speech, presented April 13 at the ACES national conference banquet in New Orleans: Tonight, we’re giving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pajamas&#8217; headlines say you donated $12,000</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:06:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s another reason you all are amazing: ACES conference goers donated about $11,700 to scholarships for budding copy editors over the three days last week. And another $448 was raised in the raffle for ACES the parent organization. The single item that got the most attention in the fundraising were ACES Education Fund board member [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Editing beyond the newsroom</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:27:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gerri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do you move to a copy editing position beyond the newsroom? Through tattoos and tweets (plus some other insider insight shared in an ACES conference session). By Brooke Carbo The University of Alabama With the news industry in a prolonged state of transition, it’s no surprise that finding and keeping a job was a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ACES 2013: Meet me in St. Louis</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 21:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gerri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ACES had set Chapel Hill, N.C., as the site for the 2013 ACES conference, but the hotel decided to do a major renovation and it’s made that impossible. So we moved up St. Louis by a year: ACES 2013 will be in St. Louis from April 4-6, 2013, at the Hilton St. Louis Ballpark. Follow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A look at alternative story forms</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 16:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gerri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two page designers offer copy editors some tips on editing flags for alternative treatments, breaking out parts of a story for alternative forms and curtailing bad design trends and habits. By Lacey Mayo Grambling State University Bad design can become a habit. By offering a taste of design mistakes and the don’ts of alternative story [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In praise of ACES&#8217; student volunteers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 07:38:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gerri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m always interested in meeting as many student members of ACES as I can at every national conference. Interacting with the student members is not only fun, but it gives me a lot of hope about the future of the copy editing profession. ACES has always acknowledged the value of educating future copy editors, especially [...]]]></description>
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