Editing Highlights

A desk editor at The New York Times works with reporters to plan coverage, assign and shape stories, and line edit articles for publication, which includes writing headlines, captions and social copy. Some of Scott's recent work:
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• Gender Pronouns Can Be Tricky on Campus. Harvard Is Making Them Stick.  Feb. 19, 2020
• An Old and Contested Solution to Boost Reading Scores: Phonics  Feb. 15, 2020
• Fear and Takeout: 14 Days in Coronavirus ‘Self-Quarantine’  Feb. 4, 2020
• A Cancer Patient Stole Groceries Worth $109.63. She Was Sentenced to 10 Months.  Feb. 1, 2020
• Why This Iowa Campus Is Erasing Political Chalk Talk  Jan. 30, 2020
• The 9 Victims of the Helicopter Crash That Killed Kobe Bryant  Jan. 27, 2020
• ‘I Lost My Legs': Wounded in Iraq, He Sued Iran  Jan. 12, 2020
• Robert Durst, Subject of ‘The Jinx,’ Admits Writing Key Note in Murder Case  Dec. 31, 2019
• ​‘A Cesspool of a Dungeon’: The Surging Population in Rural Jails  Dec. 13, 2019
• Prosecutors Usually Send People to Prison. These Are Getting Them Out.  Nov. 28, 2019
• ​Court Stops Execution of Rodney Reed in Texas After Outcry  Nov. 15, 2019
• They Thought It Was Their Uber. But the Driver Was a Predator.  April 4, 2019