SPONSORS
Sponsored by the Knight Ohio Program for Editing and Editing Education, the Poynter Institute, the Freedom Forum Diversity Institute and the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education
THE REPORT
A 24-page report on the conference is available by clicking on the image below. (Requires Acrobat)
PHOTOS
Take a stroll through a gallery of conference photos, either candid shots during the sessions or mug shots of participants and speakers.
UPHOLDING EDITING
Top editors learned at Editing the Future 2, held in partnership with the 2005 ACES conference, that a few simple strategies can uphold copy editors in their work so they can in turn uphold and protect their publications.
Introduction
Every evening, in every kind of newsroom, editors gather to turn the day's news into tomorrow's news report. They come from throughout the newsroom - department editors, content editors, graphics editors - but it is the news editor and the copy editors who are the final gatekeepers, the last guardians of an organization's character and reputation. This conference gathered editors from across the industry to consider some of journalism's most critical issues: hiring, training, diversity, technology and the online future. Nowhere are these questions more urgent than on the copy desk, which sits at the nexus of what we did yesterday and what we need to do tomorrow. [more]
 The Value of EditingJohn Seigenthaler, founder of the First Amendment Center, opened the conference with John McIntyre, assistant managing editor, copy desks, The Baltimore Sun, and president of the American Copy Editors Society. |
 How did we get here and where are we going?John Russial, associate professor of journalism at the University of Oregon, and John McIntyre trace the evolution of copy desks and lead a discussion of technology's implications for the future work of copy editors. |
 The brains of reporters, assigning editors and copy editorsJacqui Banaszynski, associate managing editor of The Seattle Times and Knight Chair at the University of Missouri, offers advice for meshing the dual (and sometimes dueling) worlds of reporters, assigning editors and copy editors.
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 Forward into the futureJanice Castro, assistant dean of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, pulls together the research to help desks prepare for the converged world of online news and information.
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 Why copy desks matterBob Giles, curator of the Nieman Foundation, explains why an effective copy desk is an essential guardian of a profitable newspaper's character and reputation.
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 Recruiting, training and creating leadersWalter Middlebrook, associate editor for recruitment at Newsday, and Jerry Sass, former copy desk chief at the Portland Oregonian and now at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, describe how to find and develop great copy editors.
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 Fault lines and demographicsCopy editors are key to making sure stories accurately reflect the community. Dori Maynard, president of the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, provides strategies to help all journalists understand the fault lines of generation, race, class, gender and geography. |
 Focus on accuracyGetting the facts right is crucial to a news organization's credibility. Margaret Holt, who supervises the Chicago Tribune's accuracy program, describes how and why the program works.
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 Preparing for 10 years down the roadHow will your copy desk face whatever's down the road? Some ideas from Karen Brown Dunlap, president of the Poynter Institute; Janet Weaver, former dean of Poynter and now managing editor of the Tampa Tribune; Julie Moos, Poynter's online news editor; and Mike Cutler, news director at NewsChannel 5 in Nashville, Tenn. |
Story on session
Video of Seigenthaler's comments
PowerPoint
Handout "Promoting diversity"