COPY AND LAYOUT EDITING
A busy sub-editor checks copy and design on a magazine produced using Adobe In Design.
Professional Expertise
Ry has worked as a copy and layout editor at the Vancouver Sun, the Province and the Times Colonist working on tough deadlines day after day with great reporters struggling to craft stories while the clock refused to stop ticking. It is exhilarating, tough work. Ry loves it.He also enjoyed serving as a Consulting Editor for the B.C. Association of Social Workers. In this position Ry worked with a volunteer editorial board and helped to translate their vision and ideas into a top-notch association newsletter. While Director of Communications for the Canadian Bar Association in Vancouver, Ry also served as editor of the CBA newsletter, BarTalk.
Technical Expertise
These days, most editors are not so specialized as folks in the profession tended to be in the past, “thanks,” or “no thanks,” to computers. Usually, today’s editors can’t expect to get by on just copy editing or layout skills. Or working for only one medium, like print. They are expected to cut, slash and mangle copy and graphics to pump out words and images for print, web, video and other media, like PowerPoint and Flash presentations.Expect that kind of ruthless versatility from Ry.
He’s worked with Quark Xpress publishing solutions at the Vancouver Sun, Province and Times Colonist. And for private clients he has produced newsletters using Adobe In Design. Other mission-critical applications are Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and RapidWeaver for the web.