copy editor

If you want to call yourself an “independent press” show me your copy editor first.

In my usual job as a copy editor for this newspaper, I tend to cast a skeptical eye on a writer’s use of the word “ecstatic.”

But perhaps love means never having to have a copy editor.

In Seattle, about 15 editors, copy editors, page designers, photo editors and digital producers contributed.

Beloved retired Seattle Times writer and copy editor, local historian, runner and Garfield High fan.