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.

Latest Article Comments

Try and make some sense! See how that doesn't make any sense. You try to make sense. You don't try and also make sense while you're at it, or make
Anonymous
Usage quandaries, part 2: Try and
That makes sense. Thanks, Erin.
Jonathon
Usage quandaries, part 2: Try and

Latest Forum Discussions