6 November 2024 | Newsletters, November 2024
Editors Queensland end-of-year dinner Calling all editors and friends who will be in or around Brisbane on the evening of Friday 6 December 2024: let’s get together for the annual Editors Queensland end-of-year dinner! Very soon we will announce the restaurant...
6 November 2024 | Newsletters, November 2024
President’s report by Margaret Trudgeon AE The year is fast coming to a close, and the Editors Victoria committee has been working hard over the past month to get some PD workshops and events underway, while planning for new ones to come. We have just completed...
6 November 2024 | Newsletters, November 2024
Whenever we survey members about their professional development needs, two topics will reliably be high on their list. Copyright is one, as a rapidly changing and specialist field that editors nonetheless need good working knowledge of. Working with First Nations...
6 November 2024 | Newsletters, November 2024
By Julie Ganner AE A frustration I often hear voiced by people with low or no vision is about the lack of image descriptions (alt text) in many digital publications. An image description tells the user what an image is of. Without it, someone using a screen reader...
6 November 2024 | Newsletters, November 2024
By Sylvia Bauer, Editors ANZ Back this July by popular demand after speaking in 2021, Pania Tahau-Hodges hosted her second workshop on editing te reo Māori in English-language texts. This topic affects all editors in Aotearoa New Zealand, so it’s no wonder...
6 November 2024 | Newsletters, November 2024
From the Standing Committee for Professional Development Ever wished there were some simple, seamless tricks that would speed up your editing? Ever wished you could stay in the flow of your copyediting while tackling routine fixes, standardising and checks? Using...
