BR Writer’s Tips: Online Editor’s Library

If you’ve been reading the press releases, you already know the company line:

Bleacher Report is first and foremost a community of COLLABORATIVE sportswriters.

In that spirit, and with an eye towards getting all of us on the same page, I’m publishing here the full set of links to Bleacher Report’s Online Editor’s Library. Drum roll please…

• Editing Tutorial
• Editor’s Tips
• Editor’s Cheat Sheet
• Editing Case Study
• Bleacher Report Style Guide
• Bleacher Report Star-Rating Guide

For those of you who like to dabble in the editing game, the benefits speak for themselves. But even if you’d rather stick exclusively to writing, there’s still plenty to gain from a quick tour through the collection.

Remember, you are always your own first editor. Bleacher Report articles go live to the ‘Net as soon as they’re published, which means any editing work that gets done is at best an after-the-fact fix. In a perfect world, we’d all get it right the first time. In this one, we should at least approach the publishing process with a full complement of skills and tools.

The Online Editor’s Library is by no means an exhaustive resource, but it’ll definitely get you headed in the right direction. And who knows—it may even convince you to take a crack at editing in its own right.

Or so your poor overworked Managing Editor might hope, anyway…