You're a copy editor? Uh ...

It took many conversations, but my wife, Kathleen Capcara, finally perfected a response. "Kathleen, what does your husband do?" "He's a copy editor for The Cincinnati Enquirer [or] The Baltimore Sun ." "Copy editor? What's that?" "He's kind of an English teacher for the newsroom." Thus she summed up the kinds of things that concern us, the kind of people drawn to this work, and the perception of…