Editors receive a lot of abuse these days and often get blamed for errors that are inflicted by others in the production chain. That is not to say that we editors aren’t often the causes of errors, either from a failure to catch the error or because we introduced the error in our zeal to demonstrate our editorial prowess.
But, as the following video demonstrates, there are some who still prize our skills:
Yet the question is whether our profession is in decline. Gus is a new entrant to our profession:
As Carmela demonstrates, we aren’t sitting still and letting the world pass us by. We constantly seek new and better ways to improve the work of our clients:
The importance of proofreading cannot be overstated. Taylor Mali illustrates the problem of editing by homonym:
Knowing how difficult things can be in the editing world, it was only a matter of time until we had our own lament:
An American Editor 