A copy editor’s secret weapons

I keep a couple of online tools handy while I copy edit. For the most part, they won’t surprise you. But I do have one secret weapon.

For speed and efficiency, I open a window in Firefox and always keep the following tabs available:

Live: Presentation by NYT multimedia editor Andrew DeVigal

KRON asks in 1981: Could computers be the future of news?

Using technology to edit and picking on the big boys

Thanks to The New York Times’ great search tool, it’s easier than ever to find their mistakes.

Don’t get me confused with those crotchety old geezers who sit around compiling a newspaper’s mistakes, then mail them…