Editing Copy editing (section)

=== Contemporary copy editor ===
The field of copy editing is not obsolete. Teresa Schmedding, president of the American Copy Editors Society (ACES) and a deputy managing editor at the ''Daily Herald'' in Chicago, thinks that copy editors are "a natural fit" for digital journalism and social media because, though publishing has been made available to almost anyone, quality and credibility is brought to content only by copy editors.<ref name="Track changes">{{Cite web |url=https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/track-changes-in-word-197ba630-0f5f-4a8e-9a77-3712475e806a |title=Track changes in Word |publisher=[[Microsoft]] Support |access-date=18 October 2023 }}  </ref>

Copy editors must now consider multimedia aspects of the story, such as video, images, audio, and [[search engine optimization]], which may be included in digital publications.<ref name="Track changes"/> Digital editing now requires copy editors to understand [[search engine optimization|SEO]], HTML, [[Cascading Style Sheets|CSS]], and [[RSS]] feeds,<ref name="Track changes"/> as well as creative tools like [[Adobe Illustrator]]. This shows that the age of copy editing has now surpassed traditional methods of editing. The basics of checking grammar and punctuation are still necessary, but in the age of technology, the field of copy-editing has grown to include digital editing of various forms of media.<ref name="Track changes" /> Contemporary copy editors now have to review and understand current technology to help authors gain credibility in today's digital age.