List of American copy editors

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

American copy editors

Melvin L. Barnet
Tosh Berman
Theodore M. Bernstein – former editor of The New York Times;[1] author of The Careful Writer, Watch Your Language and several other books on grammar and usage
William G. Connolly – co-author of The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage;[2] member of the American Copy Editors Society executive board
Josephine Donovan
Hugh Hefner - worked at Fortune magazine as a copy editor before founding Playboy magazine[3]
John McIntyre – assistant managing editor for the copy desk at The Baltimore Sun;[4] a past president of the American Copy Editors Society; author of the blog You Don't Say of The Baltimore Sun
Mary Norris (copy editor)
Patricia T. O'Conner
Eleanor Gould Packard
Pam Robinson – co-founder and first president of the American Copy Editors Society[5]
Allan M. Siegal – co-author of The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage;[6] retired
Bill Walsh – a copy editor for the Washington Post, he also authored three books about the profession of copy editing and ran a website focused upon copy editing titled "The Slot".[7]

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"Bill Walsh, copy editor and witty authority on language, dies at 55". Washington Post. March 15, 2017. Retrieved June 12, 2020.

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