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Bill Walsh
Bill Walsh
Bill Walsh has been a newspaper journalist for 30 years and is now a multiplatform editor at The Washington Post. He is the author of two books on usage and style, Lapsing Into a Comma (2000) and The Elephants of Style (2004), and is working on a third. He has run The Slot: A Spot for Copy Editors on the World Wide Web since 1995 and posts regularly on Twitter: @theslot. A 1984 graduate of the University of Arizona journalism program, Walsh began his career as a reporter at The Phoenix Gazette and has held a variety of copyediting and design positions at the Gazette, The Washington Times, and the Post. He is a regular speaker at American Copy Editors Society conferences and is a member of Copyediting’s editorial advisory board.
