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Become a Trusted Editor: How to Build Credibility and Strengthen Relationships

$125.00

Become a Trusted Editor: How to Build Credibility and Strengthen Relationships

Develop your skills to build better relationships with colleagues. You’ll reflect on your editing style while learning strategies to maintain editorial excellence. This course can be taken independently or as part of the Poynter ACES Advanced Certificate in Editing.

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Overview

  • This course is part of the Poynter ACES Advanced Certificate in Editing.
  • Newly revised and updated for 2025 to provide the latest tools, techniques and thinking.
  • Enjoy a significant discount on the Advanced Certificate with an ACES membership.
  • Polish your expertise in the final level of our three-part editing certification program.
  • Go at your own pace with this asynchronous course.
  • Discover your editing style in our editor personas activities.
  • Conduct an inventory of your strengths and challenge areas.
  • Get specific tools to help you head off issues that might impact editorial ethics and excellence.
  • Get tips on handling tough conversations as an editor.

$125.00

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Learning Outcomes

In this course, you will:

  • Discover six distinct editing personas and learn how to use each style.
  • Reflect on your own strengths and challenges to develop ways to improve relationships with colleagues.
  • Use accuracy, artistry, clarity and ethics to diagnose issues that might compromise editorial excellence.
  • Gain tactics for navigating tricky conversations with other people in the editorial process.
  • Build on what you’ve learned through a case study.

$125.00

Overview

  • This course is part of the Poynter ACES Advanced Certificate in Editing.
  • Newly revised and updated for 2025 to provide the latest tools, techniques and thinking.
  • Enjoy a significant discount on the Advanced Certificate with an ACES membership.
  • Polish your expertise in the final level of our three-part editing certification program.
  • Go at your own pace with this asynchronous course.
  • Discover your editing style in our editor personas activities.
  • Conduct an inventory of your strengths and challenge areas.
  • Get specific tools to help you head off issues that might impact editorial ethics and excellence.
  • Get tips on handling tough conversations as an editor.

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Strong editors know spelling, grammar and style. The best editors know that besides technical skills, they must develop trusting relationships with colleagues. 

Through this course, you’ll gain insights into your editing style to help you reflect on your strengths and how you can grow as you nurture connections with colleagues at every step of the editorial process.

Lessons include:

  • Discovering six distinct editing personas and when each style is most applicable
  • How to use accuracy, artistry, clarity and ethics to diagnose issues that might compromise editorial excellence
  • Tactics for navigating tricky conversations

When you are done, you’ll be more self-aware with greater confidence in how to communicate throughout the editorial process.

Questions?

If you need assistance, email us at info@poynter.org.

This asynchronous course takes about two hours to complete. 

It consists of readings, videos and activities designed to improve your editing skills.

You can go at your own pace. Your progress will be recorded.

The course culminates in a 10-question quiz. To pass, you must achieve a score of 80% or better (eight or more correct answers). You must complete the quiz in one sitting. You cannot pause or come back to it, but there is no time limit on it and you can take it as many times as needed to pass.

This course is part of the Poynter ACES Advanced Certificate in Editing. While the Introductory and Intermediate certificates are not prerequisites, it is recommended that you complete them before you start the Advanced Certificate.

You can take this course independently, without enrolling in the Advanced Certificate learning path.

Who should enroll

This course is designed for editors who want to build their relationships with colleagues. It is appropriate for all level of editors. 

Cost

$125

Instructors

  • Chris Clermont
    Vice president, head of DEI+ at Vox Media
    Chris Clermont (he/him) is the vice president, head of DEI+ at Vox Media. In this role, he pioneers project work focused on building empathy, leading...
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  • Lissa Soep
    Senior Editor of Audio, Vox Media
    Lissa Soep is an editor, writer and researcher who started a career in journalism after she finished a doctorate, turned down a professor job and...
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