Copy editor.

Copy Editor newsletter now has its third editor since McMurry acquired it in 2000 from founding editor Mary Beth Protomastro. Wendalyn Nichols replaces Barbara Wallraff, who's had the position for about three and a half years.

Wallraff told NL/NL, "I'm hard at work on another book, to be based on my Atlantic Monthly Word Fugitives column. So a few months ago I reluctantly concluded something had to give."

Wendi comes well prepared for the job. At Random House, she was Editorial Director of Reference and Information Publishing. She has taught remedial English, composition, and English as a Second Language.

She has worked as a contracted researcher and writer for Parenting Press, and as a lexicographer for the Pearson Group as well as for Random House.

She has appeared frequently as a language expert on radio and television programs, including The Today Show, CNN, and NPR's Talk of the Nation. Since 2002 her full-time job has been in editorial services, including book doctoring, developmental editing, and proposal writing.

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