Copy editing

thumb | 440x248px | right | Example of "sic" being used after a word in a quotation or passage, to indicate that the quoted matter has been transcribed or translated exactly as found in the original. Example is from a United States Supreme Court case, Briggs v. Connecticut, .

Fact-checking is the process of verifying the factual accuracy of questioned reporting and statements. Fact-checking can be conducted before or after the text or content is published or otherwise disseminated. Internal fact-checking is such checking done in-house by the publisher to prevent inaccurate content from being published; when the text is analyzed by a third party, the process is called external fact-checking.

introductory summary part of a text such as a news article

work that an editor does to improve the formatting, style, and accuracy of text

lines of text used to explain or elaborate an illustration, figure, table, or photograph

right|96px|A dele. A dele or deleatur (, ) is an obelism (a proofreading symbol) used to mark something for deletion.

adage that states: "If you write anything criticizing editing or proofreading, there will be a fault of some kind in what you have written."

In common usage and linguistics, concision (also called conciseness, succinctness, terseness, brevity, or laconicism) is a communication principle of eliminating redundancy, generally achieved by using as few words as possible in a sentence while preserving its meaning. More generally, it is achieved through the omission of parts that impart information that was already given, that is obvious or that is irrelevant. Outside of linguistics, a message may be similarly "dense" in other forms of communication.

process of arranging material on a newspaper page

text written by a copywriter

pencil used to show corrections to written copies