Peter Erikson
Copy editor
Mill Valley (California) United States (California)
Professional Status
Employed
Available
About Me
Experienced copy editor with strong headline-writing, design, wire and proofreading skills.
- Ensure copy is factually, grammatically, mathematically and structurally sound is accompanied by a strong headline;
- Specialize in authoring style guides and culling the wire services;
- Knowledgeable about social media, content management systems and HTML;
- Sharpening digital news-gathering and design skills as scholarship student at San Francisco State University;
- Hope to work as copy editor or designer for online news organization such as Yahoo Front Page.
Copy editor
Bay Area News Group
Since November 2010
- Edit stories and write headlines for multiple editions of San Jose Mercury News.
Copy editor
The Press-Enterprise
April 2008
to October 2009
- Managed copy desk on weekends with busiest workload and fewest resources. Put news pages to bed early on Fridays so desk could get a jump on prep sports copy; combined portions of multiple wire-service reports into front-page stories.
