Copy Editors Conference Set for April

By: Joe Strupp The national conference of the American Copy Editors Society is set for April 20-23 in Los Angeles. It will include a panel of major newspapers' editors titled "Editing the Future."

Panelists for that event are: John Carroll of the Los Angles Times, Bill Keller of The New York Times; Rick Rodriguez of The Sacramento Bee and incoming president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors; Bill Kovach of the Committee of Concerned Journalists, and Philip Meyer, professor of journalism at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of The Vanishing Newspaper, which was recently published.

After sessions on April 20-21, the top editors will attend workshops in the remaining two days of the conference. The event is being sponsored in part by a grant form the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.