Shane J. Corriher
Copy Editor, News Desk
Des Moines, IA · (515) 555 0119 · name@example.com · linkedin.com/in/shanejcorriher
Key Qualifications
EXPERIENCE
Nine years on daily newspaper copy desks
INDUSTRIES
Metropolitan daily news, state government coverage, agriculture reporting
SPECIALTIES
Deadline editing, headline writing, fact checking, corrections review
SYSTEMS
Adobe InDesign, Adobe InCopy, WordPress, Chartbeat, Merriam Webster online
CREDENTIALS
Certificate in editing, American Copy Editors Society and the Poynter Institute
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts in English, Drake University
Executive Summary
Copy editor on a daily news desk for nine years, editing roughly 30 stories a night against a hard press deadline. Catches the wrong middle initial, the bad math in a budget story and the sentence that sounds fine until you ask who did what. Writes headlines that fit and hold up.
Signature Achievements
- Edits 30 stories a night on deadline and has never missed a page close in nine years.
- Caught a transposed figure in a state budget story that would have overstated a fund by 40 million dollars.
- Cut the newsroom correction rate by a third after building a numbers and names check into the desk routine.
- Wrote the headline on an election night front page that the newsroom reprinted as a poster.
- Maintains the local style supplement to Associated Press style and settles roughly 15 usage questions a week.
- Trained seven reporters on self editing, which shortened average desk handling time by four minutes a story.
Professional Experience
Copy Editor
Hawkeye Daily Register, Des Moines, IA 2020 to present
Four person universal desk editing print and digital copy for a daily serving the state capital region.
- Edits news, business and agriculture copy for accuracy, structure, grammar and Associated Press style.
- Writes print headlines, decks and captions and paginates two inside sections a night.
- Verifies names, titles, dates and figures against source documents before release.
- Writes and logs corrections with the managing editor and tracks recurring error types.
- Rewrites digital headlines for search demand and reviews performance in Chartbeat.
Copy Editor and Page Designer
Cedar Basin Media, Cedar Rapids, IA 2016 to 2020
Shared production desk editing and designing pages for three regional daily newspapers.
- Edited and paginated up to 14 pages a night across three titles in Adobe InDesign.
- Wrote headlines and cutlines for wire and staff copy.
- Handled the late night wire desk during breaking national news.
Licensure and Certification
Member, American Copy Editors Society
Certificate in editing, Poynter Institute
Education
Bachelor of Arts in English, Drake University, 2016
Core Skills
Deadline copy editing · Headline writing · Associated Press style · Fact checking · Corrections practice · Page design · Adobe InDesign · Adobe InCopy · Search headline testing · Style guide maintenance