John McIntyre (copy editor)
John E. McIntyre is an American journalist and copy editor.[1] McIntyre is a charter member and two-term president of the American Copy Editors Society.[2]
Life and career
McIntyre was born in Kentucky and grew up in Elizaville, in Fleming County, Kentucky.[3] He graduated from Fleming County High School in Flemingsburg, Kentucky in 1969. He then earned a bachelor's degree in English from Michigan State University in 1973. From 1973 to 1979 he attended Syracuse University, earning a master's degree in English but leaving without completing his doctorate.
From 1980 to 1986 McIntyre worked as a copy editor at The Cincinnati Enquirer. He became a copy editor at The Baltimore Sun in 1986. On April 29, 2009, McIntyre was laid off by The Sun.[4] He was rehired in 2010 to serve as the newspaper's Night Content Production Manager.[5]
McIntyre is also an affiliate (adjunct) instructor at Loyola College in Maryland. He maintains a blog called "You Don't Say" on the Sun website, discussing a variety of topics including grammar usage, journalism, and copy editing.
He is the author of two books published by Apprentice House Press at Loyola University Maryland: "The Old Editor Says: Maxims for Writing and Editing" (2013) and "Bad Advice: The Most Unreliable Counsel Available on grammar, Usage, and Writing" (2020).
References
- ↑ "Amazon.com: John E. McIntyre". Amazon.com. Retrieved June 1, 2016.
- ↑ "Everything in the known universe about McIntyre". Technorati. Archived from the original on July 28, 2012. Retrieved 2008-01-13. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ John McIntyre: Night Content Production Manager. Archived 2012-11-02 at the Wayback Machine The Baltimore Sun
- ↑ "Home". dcrtv.com. Archived from the original on 2019-02-28. Retrieved 2009-04-29. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ McIntyre, John E. (April 30, 2010). Q and A. via McIntyre's blog
External links
- You Don't Say on Blogspot.com previous blog
- You Don't Say column via The Baltimore Sun, archive through January 2012
- You Don't Say column via The Baltimore Sun, archive February 2012 to present
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