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Copy Editor Resume

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NJ

OBJECTIVE: To contribute in an editing/writing or related quality control capacity.

EXPERIENCE:

COPY EDITOR
Confidential,
Princeton, NJ
July 2005 - May 2008
Editor in consulting firm’s Quality Control Department, where I edited prospective employees’ psychometric profiles, OD proposals and company marketing materials for grammar, spelling, and clarity, meeting daily quotas for accuracy and productivity.

JOURNALIST
Confidential,
Neptune, NJ
Feb. 2003 - June 2005
Reporter for New Jersey’s second largest daily newspaper, covering municipal government, schools and human interest stories in six towns, publishing 8-10 articles per week.

PROOFREADER
Lakewood, NJ
Confidential,
Jan. 2001 - Dec. 2002
Proofread customer orders for Japanese-owned manufacturing/office supplies company, meeting daily quotas for grammar, spelling and design specifications.

JOURNALIST
Confidential,
Manasquan, NJ
Jan. 1999 - Dec. 2000
Reporter for weekly newspaper, covering four municipalities and publishing 6-8 news stories per week on local government, schools and human interest subjects.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor’s in Journalism
May 1997

SKILLS:

Computer literacy
Word, Excel, Outlook, Internet research
Typing

INTERNSHIP:

Confidential,
FL
May-Aug. 1996
Selected, rewrote headlines for, and re-edited Associated Press newswire stories for daily newspaper\'s online edition.

ADDITIONAL TRAINING:

Completed Legal and Financial proofreading course, NY, New York May 2000
Attended SkillPaths seminar on workplace communication, Freehold, NJ March 2007

REFERENCES:

Available upon request

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