ACES News
ACES Webcast Presenters Now Receive $200 Per Webcast
By Gigi Sutton, MBA, ACES Executive Director ACES: The Society for Editing is proud to announce the launch of a new initiative to pay webcast speakers a $200 honorarium per webcast. This decision reflects ACES’ commitment to acknowledging the invaluable expertise and contributions of our esteemed speakers. This honorarium is a small token of our…
Read MoreThis Is Not Your Parents’ Conference App
By ACES Staff Are you a government editor? Do you edit fiction? Are you a newspaper copy editor? Do you have a freelance business? Do you live in Atlanta? Tampa? Los Angeles? British Columbia? Do you love word games? Knitting? Your cat? Whoever you are, whatever you’re interested in, when you go to an ACES…
Read MoreWilliam G. “Bill” Connolly, founding ACES member and former ACES Education Fund president, has died.
By ACES Staff ACES: The Society for Editing and the ACES Education Fund are saddened to announce the death of founding member and former Education Fund president William G. Connolly on Dec. 12. He was 86. Bill Connolly, a retired copy editor and senior editor of The New York Times and co-editor of the 1999…
Read MoreACES and Poynter announce new intermediate-level editing series
By ACES Staff ACES: The Society for Editing and The Poynter Institute are pleased to announce the launch of their Intermediate Certificate in Editing. The seven-course, 12-hour intermediate certificate has been months in the making. It is the second in the three-tier Poynter ACES editing certificate series, which sets the industry standard for communications professionals…
Read MoreACES: The Society for Editing Mourns the Loss of a Valued Member, Mentor, Friend, and Editor- Henry Fuhrmann
By Neil Holdway It is with great sadness that we must announce the death of board member and ACES Education Fund President Henry Fuhrmann. Henry’s family announced that he died Wednesday after a brief and sudden illness. He was 65. Henry was on the board of directors of ACES: The Society for Editing, a position…
Read MoreHow to sell your boss on sending you to an ACES conference
By ACES Staff You know you’ll come away refreshed and recharged, but how do you convince your boss that you need to attend an ACES conference? Here’s a cheat sheet for talking through the typical concerns: We’re understaffed; we can’t lose you for that long. The ACES conference is a chance for inspiration with extraordinary editors…
Read MoreHow an editor found true happiness inside the Education Fund Board’s kitchen
By Laura Cameron A recent, completely unscientific, poll confirmed what I have long suspected about people drawn to copyediting: We are more likely to be found in the kitchen than in the center of the party’s action. It’s not that we’re unsociable creatures, of course. I can happily mix and mingle under the right circumstances…
Read MoreWhy I give
By Lisa McLendon, University of Kansas School of Journalism and ACES Education Fund board member I could say I give to the ACES Education Fund because I think it’s important to support students, among them my own, in completing their education as they aspire to be editors. And that’s true: I think it’s so important,…
Read MoreACES welcomes our new executive director
By Gigi Sutton ACES: The Society for Editing is proud to announce Jehan “Gigi” Sutton as the new executive director. Sutton is joining ACES following her role as the executive director for multiple client associations at an association management firm. She has worked for over 15 years in the association/nonprofit industry and has extensive experience…
Read MoreBig stories of 2020 drive AP Stylebook changes, additions in past year
By Gerri Berendzen The AP Stylebook session at this year’s ACES conference may have seemed a bit different than in years past—and not just because the entire two-day conference was conducted virtually. And while the virtual nature of the conference would have hidden any audible gasps, there probably weren’t many anyway. Paula Froke, editor of…
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