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Proofreader proofreads, reviews and edits documents for accurate use of grammar and content. Corrects any grammatical, spelling, typographical, or compositional errors in original copy. Being a Proofreader typically requires an associate degree. Typically reports to a supervisor or manager. The Proofreader works independently within established procedures associated with the specific job function. Has gained proficiency in multiple competencies relevant to the job. To be a Proofreader typically requires 3-5 years of related experience. (Copyright 2024 Salary.com)

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Fud, the "World's First Social Hustling Community" is seeking a Freelancing Expert - Proofreader to join our team. As a Freelancing Expert, you will be instrumental in providing comprehensive know-how and mentorship to our community of freelancers and independent workers.

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• 4/28/2024 12:00:00 AM
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• Job Description Job Description POSITION SUMMARY: The Copywriter/Proofer will work in a creative capacity to conceive, d...
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I'm a seasoned and accomplished editor providing quality proofreading and copyediting services for the K-12, adult, and scholarly markets.

Work experience:

• Self-employed
• Marshall Cavendish Corporation

Services: Editing Copy Editing Proofreading

Genres: Young Adult, Fiction, Health & Wellbeing, Non-Fiction, History, Humanities & Social Sciences, Middle Grade, Children's, Children’s Non-Fiction, Women's Fiction, Inspirational

I am a content editor, copy editor, and proofreader. I specialize in nonfiction books.

• Self Employed

Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Business & Management, Health & Wellbeing, History, Humanities & Social Sciences, Political Science & Current Affairs, Travel, Philosophy, Entertainment

New York, NY, United States

I have copyedited and proofread more than five hundred books, adult and children's, nonfiction and fiction, in all genres.

• Simon & Schuster

Genres: Young Adult, Fiction, Humor & Comedy, Picture Books, Children's, Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Action & Adventure, Historical Fiction, LGBTQ Fiction, Middle Grade, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Children’s Non-Fiction

New York, NY, USA

Seasoned copy and developmental editor focusing across nonfiction, dedicated to working closely with authors to produce exceptional content

• Ethics & International Affairs
• Encounter Books

Services: Editing Developmental Editing Copy Editing Editorial Assessment Proofreading

Genres: Business & Management, Non-Fiction, Economics, Humanities & Social Sciences, Education & Reference, Law, Philosophy, Sociology, LGBTQ Non-Fiction, History

Dedicated editor of various genres and age groups, including picture books, middle grade, YA, adult mysteries/thrillers, and biographies.

• Palaver Arts Magazine
• Yale University Press
• Sourcebooks Publishing
• Trojans 360

Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Mystery & Crime, Fiction, Thriller & Suspense, Picture Books, Children's, Middle Grade, Young Adult Fantasy, Young Adult

A rigorously trained copyeditor and proofreader with experience working on trade fiction, trade nonfiction, and scholarly books

Genres: Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Mystery & Crime, Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Business & Management, Health & Wellbeing, Humanities & Social Sciences

Nearly ten years' experience in academic publishing. Two degrees from Oxford University and, yes, it looks just like Harry Potter.

• Palgrave Macmillan
• Routledge, Taylor and Francis
• Cambridge University Press
• Springer Science and Business Media

Services: Editing Developmental Editing Editorial Assessment Proofreading Query Letter Review

Genres: History, Humanities & Social Sciences, Non-Fiction, Political Science & Current Affairs, Education & Reference, Writing & Publishing

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Genres: Cooking, Food, Wine, & Spirits, Non-Fiction, Sex & Relationships

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Organizations : Multiple U.S. Multinational Law Firms Location: New York, NY – Midtown Manhattan

Salary & Benefits : Base salaries range from $55,000 to $72,000 with paid overtime, comprehensive firm benefits, PTO; 401K; Private Car Transit Reimbursement and Bonus eligible.  Some firms offer tuition and or advanced training; gym memberships and firm cafe for all shifts for qualified legal proofreaders.  These are staff positions. 

Proofreader Summary :

Qualified Proofreaders will have Law Firm or Financial Industry proofreading experience and should have exceptional capabilities with proofreading, checking and reviewing diverse types of documents for internal and external use.  Attention to detail is required for document structure, punctuation, grammatical usage, spelling and at times unique terminology.  Based on your proofreading experience, each proofreader can be assigned to projects that require various levels of autonomy or team collaboration. We are seeking proofreaders who enjoy working for firms that are regarded as being some of the finest law firms in the world.

D uties and Responsibilities:

• Read / Proofread documents for typos, grammar, style, spelling, formats, punctuation and accuracy utilizing standardized proofreading notations to exhibit changes made or to be made.  
• Review Redlining of documents with original
• Proofread financial tables when included in a document to assure accuracy
• Ability to work independently or as part of a team on large projects
• Good communication skills to interact with all levels of staff with regard to documents
• Should be organized and able to communicate the status of a document and maintain a record of documents received in the Firm's system.  Will train.   
• Familiarity with Bluebook formatting
• Ability to utilize Tables of Authority
• Maintain confidentiality of highly sensitive documents   

Required Skills:

• 4+ years of proofreading experience in a law firm or financial institution
• Comprehensive skills with Microsoft Word and Office
• Bachelor’s degree is preferred but related proofreading experience is of more importance
• Experience with proofreading symbols
• The ability to work on multiple projects
• Experience with deadlines and meeting deadlines when requested
• Strong communication skills, grammar, punctuation, spelling and attention to detail  
• Assure confidentiality of information and documents internal and external to the Firm 
• The ability to interface with Attorneys, Paralegals and all levels of staff in a professional manner
• The ability and or flexibility to work paid over-time
• A proofreader with the desire for career stability with a noted multinational law firm 

To Apply :  If your experience meets the proofreading requirements of these positions, please submit your resume in Word format, if possible, and indicate the shifts of your choice.  Thank you.  

Mary Suneetha Managing Director Filcro Legal Staffing 295 Madison Avenue New York, NY  10017 Resume Submission Link Mobile Phone Job Page https://www.filcrolegalstaffing.com/proofreaders Alt Link  http://lawfirmpeople.com/html/proofreaders.html#Proofreader-4-Days

Location New York, NY - Midtown Manhattan

Legal Proofreaders

Salary Base salary to $60,000, Well Paid OT after 35 hours; All Benefits; Good Paid Time Off; 401K; Life and AD&D Insurance; Tuition reimbursement; Corporate Gym Memberships; Training, Travel Reimbursement, Beautiful offices.  One of America's “best employers”. Beautiful offices.  Exceptional Corporate Culture

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES :

• Maintain confidentiality of highly sensitive documents 

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• 4+ years of proofreading experience in a law firm
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook)
• Knowledge of proofreading symbols, legal terminology and blacklining
• Advanced knowledge of reading, spelling and grammar
• Maintain confidentiality and exercise a high standard of judgment and discretion
• The ability to multitask, work well under pressure and meet strict deadlines
• Detail oriented work manner with excellent problem solving skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Bachelor’s degree
• Flexibility for overtime, as needed

Mary Suneetha Vice President Filcro Legal Staffing 295 Madison Avenue New York City, NY  10017

Resume Submission Link

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Filcro Legal Staffing for Law Firm and Corporate Proofreaders

Legal Proofreader & Workflow Coordinator - 3rd Shift

Monday – Friday:  4:00PM – 12:00AM Private car and drive home within the 5 boroughs

New York, NY - Midtown Manhattan

Base salary up to $70,000 to start w/ additional well paid OT Firm Paid Benefits : Major Medical, Dental, Life Insurance, 401K, Generous PTO and sick days, FSA, Transit program and Private Car Service Home within the 5 boroughs

The Firm & Summary

A major law firm is looking for an upbeat, responsible and professional Proofreader to manage the day-to-day logistics for the Proofreading team.  Ideal candidates will have excellent communication, solid multi-tasking and organizational skills with an ability to work under tight time constraints and handle a high volume document production.   This is an amazing opportunity for someone working as a Proofreader at a top law firm who is ready to take on a leadership/supervisory role. .

Duties & Skills

• Coordinate, monitor and delegate proofreading requests
• Log and monitor all proofreading requests in database
• Notify status of proofreading requests
• Prioritize, organize and assign financial printer proofreading requests
• Perform cold reads from handwritten, word-processed or printed documents for accuracy of transcription, grammar, sense and typos
• Manual redlining and blacklining
• 5+ years proofreading experience within a mid-sized to large law firm
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Thorough knowledge of proofreading procedures with meticulous log-keeping and document accounting
• Must be proficient in the use of the Black’s Law Dictionary and Citation books
• Must have Advanced MS Word skills including complete knowledge of redlining, blacklining and cumulative blacklining

Mary Suneetha Senior Recruitment Manager Filcro Legal Staffing 295 Madison Avenue New York City, NY  10017

Resume Submission Link  

Legal Proofreader 2 Positions Available

Monday – Friday, 2AM – 9AM OR Wednesday – Sunday, 1AM – 8AM - Your Choice!

Base salary to $63,000 + 20% differential and well paid OT Firm Paid Benefits : Paid OT after 35 hours; Medical and Dental Coverage; Generous Paid Time Off; 401K; Life and AD&D Insurance; Savings Accounts; Tuition reimbursement; Corporate Gym Memberships; Travel Reimbursement and more.

Major U.S. multinational law firm The Proofreader will be responsible for reviewing and proofreading both legal and non-legal documents generated by the Document Processing Department, as well as from outside the Firm, for spelling, punctuation, diction and syntax..

• 2+ years of proofreading experience in a law firm or corporation

Mary Suneetha Assistant Vice President Filcro Legal Staffing 295 Madison Avenue New York City, NY  10017

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Opinion | Is there a feud between the White House and New York Times?

Politico reports – and the Times denies – changes in coverage due to ire over not getting a one-on-one interview with the president.

A story making the rounds in the media world Thursday was “The Petty Feud Between the NYT and the White House” from Politico’s Eli Stokols.

In his piece, Stokols writes, “According to interviews with two dozen people on both sides who were granted anonymity to discuss a sensitive subject, the relationship between the Democratic president and the country’s newspaper of record — for years the epitome of a liberal press in the eyes of conservatives — remains remarkably tense, beset by misunderstandings, grudges and a general lack of trust.”

Stokols writes that Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger and other top editors are bothered that President Joe Biden hasn’t sat down for a one-on-one interview with the paper.

One unnamed Times journalist told Stokols, “All these Biden people think that the problem is (White House reporter) Peter Baker or whatever reporter they’re mad at that day. It’s A.G. He’s the one who is (peeved that) Biden hasn’t done any interviews and quietly encourages all the tough reporting on his age.”

Stokols wrote, “In Sulzberger’s view, according to two people familiar with his private comments on the subject, only an interview with a paper like the Times can verify that the 81-year-old Biden is still fit to hold the presidency. Beyond that, he has voiced concerns that Biden doing so few expansive interviews with experienced reporters could set a dangerous precedent for future administrations, according to a third person familiar with the publisher’s thinking. Sulzberger himself was part of a group from the Times that sat down with Trump, who gave the paper several interviews despite his rantings about its coverage. If Trump could do it, Sulzberger believes, so can Biden.”

However, a pair of high-profile Times reporters spoke out on Twitter, defending the paper and their publisher.

Jonathan Swan tweeted , “Fwiw, I have spoken to AG over the past year about this topic & this caricature is unrecognizable. I never usually comment on media stories but this irritated me bc it’s such a bs mischaracterization of his views about the importance of serious longform presidential interviews.”

Baker retweeted Swan and wrote , “Agreed. I’ve never heard AG say anything like that nor anyone else at the @nytimes. It’s just not the way it works. AG wants us to cover this president – and every president – as fully, fairly and aggressively as we can because that’s our role. That’s true regardless of whether we get an interview. AG takes our responsibility very seriously and is a complete straight shooter.”

Charlie Stadtlander, a spokesperson for the Times, said in a statement after the Politico piece was published, “The notion that any line of coverage has been ordered up or encouraged in retaliation for declining an interview, or any other reason, is outrageous and untrue.” Stadtlander added that Sulzberger also has urged Biden to do interviews with other news organizations, such as Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, CNN and others.

There’s no question that Biden has done fewer one-on-one interviews than many of his predecessors.

Stadtlander said in his statement, “It is true that The Times has sought an on-the-record interview with President Biden, as it has done with all presidents going back more than a century. If the President chooses not to sit down with The Times because he dislikes our independent coverage, that is his right, and we will continue to cover him fully and fairly either way.”

Stadtlander added, “For anyone who understands the role of the free press in a democracy, it should be troubling that the President has so actively and effectively avoided questions from independent journalists over the course of his term. The president occupies the most important office in our nation and the press plays a vital role in providing insights into his thinking and worldview, allowing the public to assess the president’s record and hold him to account.”

And now, on to other media news, tidbits and interesting links for your weekend review. …

• The Associated Press’ David Bauder with “8 years after the National Enquirer’s deal with Donald Trump, the iconic tabloid is limping badly.” Bauder writes, “Even by National Enquirer standards, testimony by its former publisher David Pecker at Donald Trump’s hush money trial this week has revealed an astonishing level of corruption at America’s best-known tabloid and may one day be seen as the moment it effectively died.”
• Dan Rather is returning to CBS for the first time since his tumultuous exit from the network 18 years ago. Rather will be the subject of a profile this Sunday on “CBS Sunday Morning.” Correspondent Lee Cowan is doing the story. The Hollywood Reporter’s Alex Weprin has more .
• G/O Media has sold the satirical website The Onion to Global Tetrahedron, a new Chicago-based firm. Axios’ Kerry Flynn has more .
• The Atlantic’s Charlie Warzel with “Welcome to the TikTok Meltdown.” Warzel points out the government’s case is flawed, writing, “If you’re of the mind that TikTok is a pressing national-security threat, you’d be well within your rights to be frustrated by the way this bill has been shoehorned into law. It happened so quickly that the government might not be able to adequately prove its national-security case and might miss this opportunity.” He added, “The case for TikTok is debatable, but the path the government has taken to determine its fate is unquestionably sloppy and shortsighted.”
• The New York Times’ Saskia Solomon with “Shelley Duvall Vanished From Hollywood. She’s Been Here the Whole Time.”
• In a thoughtful column for The Athletic, Jim Trotter with “The Caitlin Clark Effect and the uncomfortable truth behind it.”
• In a column for USA Today, Carli Pierson with “Why was Harvey Weinstein case overturned? Sometimes the courts get things wrong.”
• For Poynter, Pete Croatto has a good Q&A with ESPN NFL analyst Mina Kimes . Kimes recently signed a contract extension with ESPN but told Croatto, “I had an outside opportunity that I was seriously considering based where I live in Los Angeles. It was a really cool opportunity, but for me, the people that I just mentioned, it was just impossible to imagine myself at the end of the day not working with them. I truly look forward to it, and that’s really, really hard to leave.”
• Earlier this week, the Chicago Bears held a press conference announcing plans for a new $4.6 billion stadium, and they’re asking for $2.3 billion in public funds. The press conference included the Rev. Dr. Charlie E. Dates, who prayed for the Bears and the stadium, and sports radio host Laurence Holmes wasn’t having it. He gave an epic take ( here’s the video ), blasting away at Dates for using prayer that way. Check out the whole video, but Holmes at one point said, “The neighborhood where his church resides is the neighborhood I grew up in. There are plenty of people in that neighborhood and around Chicago that need prayer. You chose to ask for God’s grace, today, for a stadium. You should be ashamed, Pastor. And your congregation should be ashamed, too, that they follow you. … I’m offended as a citizen of Chicago. I am offended for people who try to serve and worship a God that you’re hoping shares his grace on the poor and the downtrodden. If we’re going strictly from scripture on this, that is not where you need to be today, Pastor. You don’t need to be with the billionaires who are trying to take from the people of Chicago!”
• The hockey world lost a legendary voice. Bob Cole, who called NHL games for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for 50 years, has died. He was 90. No cause of death was announced. Cole – known for his signature call “Oh, baby!” – started calling games on CBC Radio in 1969 before moving to TV in 1973. He called his final game in 2019. Here’s an excellent remembrance from CBC News’ John Gushue .
• The Washington Post has named Suzi Watford as its Chief Strategy Officer. The Post describes it as a “new role designed to oversee the publication’s strategy, aligning it across all business functions and overseeing brand identity – including marketing and events efforts.” Watford joins the Post from SiriusXM, where she served as Chief Growth Officer.

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The Meta-morphosis of Mark Zuckerberg

The robotic nerd depicted in “The Social Network” has turned into the kinder, more accessible face of Silicon Valley. What’s going on?

By Vanessa Friedman

In the run-up to Meta’s first-quarter earnings report this week, a video image of Mark Zuckerberg suddenly started going viral.

Not because of the artificial intelligence assistant he was touting or because of the expected ad revenue growth, but because of the silver chain he was wearing around his neck.

“Mark Zuckerberg made an announcement about something Meta is doing with A.I., but I could not listen to or retain a second of it because when I look at the Reel of him talking, all I see is necklace,” Amy Odell wrote in her Substack, Back Row.

Later, a doctored version of the same picture with Mr. Zuckerberg sporting some scruffy facial hair got people even more excited. The 4,000-plus mostly drooling comments under an Instagram post from the celebrity news account The Shade Room included one from Gwyneth Paltrow, who compared Mr. Zuckerberg to her ex-husband, Chris Martin.

All of a sudden, it seems, people care a lot about how Mark Zuckerberg, 39, looks. At a time when the halcyon promise of technology has been cast in a darker, more suspicious light, the guy whose relentless allegiance to a gray T-shirt became synonymous with the nerd pledge to “move fast and break things” has somehow become the kinder, gentler face of technology.

“The history of Silicon Valley has always been about a carefully constructed image and narrative used to reinforce its myths,” said Venky Ganesan, a partner at the venture capital firm Menlo Ventures. But, he went on, “The playbook is changing.”

And Mr. Zuckerberg has emerged as the most visible sign yet that in the phenomenology of Silicon Valley, we are entering a post-Jobsian age.

Once upon a time, back in the days when Steve Jobs was the prophet of a better future through computing, the virtues of his approach to life seemed self-evident, including the adoption of an immutable daily uniform as the ideal form of dress. It freed the mind from the paltry concerns of such everyday choices as what color shirt goes with what socks. (So annoying!) Thus it was, too, with Mr. Zuckerberg, who went so far as to announce in a 2014 Facebook forum that he wore the same T-shirt every day because “I really want to clear my life so that I have to make as few decisions as possible, other than how to best serve this community.”

(Admittedly, it was a luxury version of a gray T-shirt from Brunello Cucinelli, but it was still a T-shirt.)

But after multiple trips by chief executives to Washington, D.C. , to testify about the controversies about anxiety and depression caused by social media pressures; after the convictions of Elizabeth Holmes (she of the Jobs-like black turtleneck) and Sam Bankman-Fried ; after the cesspool of conspiracy theories and anger that has emerged on X; after all that, the story — and its heroes’ journeys and its heroes’ costumes — suddenly doesn’t look so convincing. Behold the new, looser Mr. Zuckerberg.

He has become, said Joseph Rosenfeld, an image consultant and stylist who works with executives in New York and California, “a more democratized figure.”

Arguably the seeds were planted back in 2021, when Facebook turned into Meta, and Mr. Zuckerberg’s first avatar — dressed, as he generally was IRL, in a T-shirt and jeans — turned out to have a closet of alternative outfits, including a skeleton unitard and an astronaut’s suit. The transformation picked up steam as Mr. Zuckerberg discovered the joys of mixed martial arts and started posting photographs of himself shirtless , sweaty and with various bumps and bruises. It then reached a tipping point with the introduction of the platform Threads.

Not long after Mr. Zuckerberg unveiled his “open and friendly public space for conversation,” he also unveiled his own new, friendlier look — one that focused less on an automated uniform and more on experimentation (everything being relative), as recorded via his own Instagram posts. Suddenly, it seemed as though he was having fun with fashion.

He cheerfully shared photographs of himself looking “Yellowstone”-ready in a chunky shearling coat by Overland. (It seems to be the Maverick Rancher coat, which is the sort of subconscious tell “Saturday Night Live” might embrace.) Next came snaps of himself and his wife, Priscilla Chan, at Anant Ambani’s three-day pre-wedding celebration in Gujarat, in various forms of Indian-inspired finery: a gold silk Sunderbans Tigress shirt from Rahul Mishra, a black Alexander McQueen suit embroidered with silver dragonflies and a pastel floral kurta.

And then Mr. Zuckerberg added a pic titled “ jersey swap ” in which he and Jensen Huang of Nvidia traded outerwear, with Mr. Zuckerberg donning one of Mr. Huang’s trademark leather jackets and Mr. Huang his shearling. By the time of his last jaunt to the capital, he had let his tightly controlled Julius Caesar haircut grow into looser curls.

He has even started sharing shopping tips. When Jen Wieczner of New York magazine wrote an article identifying a sweater Mr. Zuckerberg wore as from the stealth wealth brand Loro Piana, he popped into the comments under the magazine’s Instagram post to note that the garment was actually a crew neck from Buck Mason — a Los Angeles brand that focuses on American classics — not one from an Italian luxury house owned by LVMH.

Then, when one of Mr. Zuckerberg’s followers complimented a ribbed knit cardigan he wore in a date night pick on his feed, he jumped in with a tag: “It’s @johnelliottco — I’m loving their stuff recently.”

Other brands he favors now include Todd Snyder and Vuori.

“They are kind of trendy names,” said Derek Guy, who blogs about men’s wear at Die, Workwear! “Everything has a different silhouette, like the sweatshirt with overly long sleeves or the T-shirt with dropped shoulder seams.”

Mr. Guy and Mr. Ganesan, of Menlo Ventures, said they were convinced that Mr. Zuckerberg had enlisted professional help (which is to say, a stylist) to help him develop his look. But a spokeswoman for Meta said that was not the case — at least for his day-to-day life. “Mark mostly buys clothes he finds on Instagram,” she said. “Though he does get input from time to time for formal events and occasions.”

Either way, Mr. Zuckerberg’s pivot from the luxury labels made famous by the morally bankrupt billionaires of “Succession” to more contemporary brands means that “he now has a stable of clothing that makes him an accessible figure for the world and his audience,” Mr. Rosenfeld said.

His new wardrobe also distinguishes him from rivals like Jeff Bezos — who has transformed himself into a real life version of Iron Man, with his bulging muscles, leather jackets and yachts — and Elon Musk, who seems to be channeling a sort of “Top Gun”-meets- “Goldfinger” vibe.

By contrast, Mr. Ganesan said, Mr. Zuckerberg now looks like “the buddy you want to call if you’re doing backyard construction.” Think of him as the tech dude next door. All of which matters because, Mr. Ganesan went on, “mainstream America can relate to that, and he is offering a mainstream product.”

And that, he said, is just “very good for business.”

An earlier version of a picture caption with this article, using information from Blanks by Thirteen Studios, misidentified the manufacturer of a white T-shirt that Mark Zuckerberg wore in Las Vegas. The shirt was made by John Elliott, not Blanks by Thirteen.

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Vanessa Friedman has been the fashion director and chief fashion critic for The Times since 2014. More about Vanessa Friedman

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