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Chris Lavin edited the “Metal to Bone” series published in “Best Newspaper Writing 1994” and featured in “Best Newspaper Writing Brown Bag #2: The Power of Details.” At the time, Lavin was Sunday ...

I have done a lot of coaching and editing in my career, but I have never, since the college literary magazine, been THE editor. But I often imagine that I am. So let’s say that I am assigned to become ...

Last week, a friend who's been reading these "memmos" sent me an email that he's held on to for 13 years. The message was written by Hal Ritter, a former managing editor of the Money and News sections ...

There comes a point in every writer’s life where we find ourselves questioning everything: our ability to write, our odds of getting published, our sanity at having dared to venture down this path in ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. It should have been a dream assignment. Madeline Ostrander, a freelance writer, had sold her first big feature to a high-profile ...

Serenity Software’s Editor finds grammar and word usage mistakes that your word processor may miss. As a writer and an editor, I have a love-hate relationship with Serenity Software’s Editor (various ...