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Peter
Erikson
Copy editor
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Mill Valley (California) United States (California)
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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.
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Experiences
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.