COLUMBIA MISSOURIAN
In one of my current roles at the Columbia Missourian, I act as a copy editor at our interactive copy desk. During my shifts on the desk, I edit stories for both the online and print editions of the newspaper. I often rewrite headlines and cutlines for stories to boost their search engine optimization and to better convey the story's meaning. I also write social posts for many of the stories that I edit, along with working on larger packages for the paper.
Editing clips
Age-old musical traditions have a home at the Boonslick Folk Festival — Sep. 6, 2016
- I wrote both the print and digital headlines, edited the body of the story and caught a number of grammatical and factual errors (including a misspelled name), wrote social media posts and changed the story structure to make it more feature-style than news-style.
City explores whether to provide paid parental leave to employees — Sep. 21, 2016
- I edited the story's body, including headlines for both print and digital. I caught mostly grammatical errors, and restructured some of the sections to make the information clearer. I also wrote social media posts for the story.
Zombies take over Battle High School to instruct, not infect students — Sep. 30, 2016
- I edited this story for the website, along with writing headlines and appropriate photo captions. I also wrote the social media posts for the next day.
10 states lack minority positions statewide — Sep. 5, 2016
- I edited the entirety of the print copy of this AP wire story. Wrote the headlines, subheads and cdeks, along with coming up with photo captions. I also cut about half of the story down to fit the copy to print.
