I’m an editor for McClatchy’s real-time team, where I fact-check, edit, and pitch breaking and trending national stories — while also helping write headlines.
Previously, from June 2018 to July 2021, I worked in the Opinions section at The Washington Post, starting as a copy-editing intern in summer 2018, then working in a dual role as a copy editor and operations editor before becoming a full-time operations editor. Between those positions, I wrote headlines and URLs, managed projects, ran the Opinions homepage space and section front, tracked analytics, optimized pieces for the web, designed print pages, and copy-edited and fact-checked every kind of piece the section offered.
I graduated in May 2018 with a degree in journalism from the Honors Tutorial College and E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University.
I spent summer 2017 as an intern at The New York Times on the enterprise copy desk, where I edited and wrote headlines, captions, URLs and summaries for longer, more in-depth articles on a variety of subjects, including business, politics, science and sports.
All of that combined has reinforced my love of editing, style and all things grammar. It’s something I’ve been passionate about since I started journalism, and I rarely go a day without consulting some kind of stylebook or talking about how much I love colons (the punctuation mark, of course).
Kaitlin Coward 