Name: Andy Bechtel From: UNC-Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States About me: I teach editing and writing at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at UNC-Chapel Hill. I'm interested in new ways to tell news stories and in the ethical and political ramifications of word choices (terrorist surveillance program, domestic spying or something in between?).
I have 12 years of experience in newspaper editing, most recently at The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C.
No editing blog is complete without an its/it's mistake from a newspaper. Here is this blog's example, found in a half-page ad on the back of Monday's classified section.
UPDATE: A similar Volvo ad ran Tuesday in the same position in the same paper. Someone changed the image to a different model of car, but no one repaired the its/it's error.