Copy Rules
Form of punctuation we avoid at all costs
What is the Oxford Comma
Days and times of weekly TMD production nights (new writers answer)
What is 6-8 pm Sunday-Thursday
Punctuation mark that surrounds a piece of media's name within a title
What is a single quotation mark
The name of the platform where all pieces are put to get published (new writers answer)
What is Wordpress
Numbers that you spell out
What are numbers one through ten
Two editors who read every arts piece (new writers answer)
Who are a beat editor and a senior arts editor
Character limit of an SEO title
What is 60 characters
Mentors - the last article your mentee was/is working on?
What is ____
How to reference orchestral pieces
What are italics
Last people who read an article before it gets published
Who are the Arts Maes (Campbell + Cora)
Character limit of a meta description
What is 155-160 characters
Exact title of Art's infamous most-read article
What is "The secret of ‘The Secret History’ is that it’s not good"
How to reference festivals
What is stand alone
Third person who reads an article after it gets put into prod (arts beat+sae reads count as one "person")
Who are the MAES (Campbell + Cora)
Character limit of a main title
What is 85 characters
Year the Michigan Daily was founded in
What is 1890
All the months that are abbreviated in an article
What are Jan., Feb., Aug., Sept., Oct., Nov. and Dec.
Three levels of copy editors (cannot answer if in copy)
Who are 1. copy primary 2. copy senior 3. copy chief
You should not include in your meta description
1955 historical achievement that TMD was the first newspaper source to report on
What is the success of the Polio vaccine