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Editing & Copy Editing

Editing

These are some of the works I have edited or copy edited. I have edited a lot more than the ones presented here; these are my strongest pieces.

For the Spanish articles, I have edited most of the articles in La Cronica's section, so it was a bit difficult choosing which ones to highlight. For this, I chose the ones I am most proud of editing in terms of how happy the reporter and I were with the final product. 

I fell in love with editing fairly quickly. Being asked to help improve a story is so incredibly invigorating that I find it hard to explain. 

I hope I can continue editing stories in English and Spanish until the end of my days. 

 

Copy Editing

I feel like I've copy edited countless articles. 

When I was in high school, I didn't take this skill very seriously--though I did love grammar and I was quite good at it, actually! However, during my first year of college, I realized something: if I wanted to be a writer, I needed to take copy editing seriously. Above all, I needed to respect it. 

Fun fact: In elementary school, I took it upon myself to finish my entire English workbook, cover to cover. I don't know why I did this, but I'm really glad I did because I learned so much from it. The skills I learned are still ones I use to this day, and ones I continue to refine as I get older. 

Copy editing is a great skill to have. I'm lucky enough to be able to say that it is one I possess. 

 
1 / Mi Corazón y la Panadería Nuevo León, los negocios de una familia que lleva 50 años en la industria, siguen creciendo con el apoyo de la comunidad y a nivel nacional.

By Citlalli Magali Sotelo

Part of La Cronica's Restaurant Series in celebration of Latine Heritage Month

2 / Ante la gentrificación en Humboldt Park, Nellie’s Restaurante avanza con su apoyo comunitario

By Lizeth Medina

Part of La Cronica's Restaurant Series in celebration of Latine Heritage Month

3 / La primera taquería de Chicago, Los Comales, celebró su 50 aniversario este mes

By Miranda Bucio

Part of La Cronica's Restaurant Series in celebration of Latine Heritage Month

4 / Still Waters Run Deep

By Yasmine Essence Soria

Fiction, published in Allium's Spring '24 Print Issue

5 / Graffiti art moves beyond hip-hop origins as artists embrace their own styles, culture

By Uriel Reyes

Part of the Chronicle's Hip-Hop print issue. I also wrote the Spanish digest!

6 / Garnett Kilberg Cohen talks ‘Cravings’

By Cesar Toscano

A feature story about Garnett Kilberg Cohen

1 / Allium, A Journal of Poetry & Prose Spring '23 Print Issue 

All stories were copy edited by me and other team of copy editors

2 / Brandon Johnson elected next mayor of Chicago

By Leah Love & Abra Richardson

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3 / Faculty retention declines at Columbia – especially among instructors of color

By Olivia Cohen

4 / Being a virgin does not mean that you can not be intimate — with yourself

By Avery Timmons

5 / Villain Arts 13th Annual Chicago Tattoo Arts Festival features cultural tattooing

By Robin Sluzas

6 / Columbia's "ChicagoTalks" finalist for the 2022 Peter Lisagor Awards

By Amaris Edwards

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