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Meet Jennifer
- Jennifer graduated from UNC in 2000 as a political science and journalism major.
- She knew that she wanted to be involved in copy editing after she started working at The Daily Tar Heel during her first year of college.
- Before landing her first job at The Washington Post, she interned at the Salisbury Post,The News & Observer, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Washington Post.
- Jennifer worked at The Washington Post from 2000 to 2010, when she began working at Washington Post Magazine. She's worked at Washington Post Magazine for a little over a year.
- At Washington Post Magazine, Jennifer is a copy editor, but she does much more than copy editing. She also helps with web production, is an assignment editor for front-of-book stories (articles that appear at the beginning of the magazine) and works with other assignment editors and writers to fact-check, perfect and assign pieces.
- The magazine has a staff of nine, which includes designers, production chiefs, copy editors, assignment editors and the main editor.
- There are no staff writers on the magazine, but sometimes staff writers from The Washington Post will write stories for the magazine. Jennifer estimates that 80 percent of the staff is freelance.
- The magazine works really far in advance. For example, someone who is writing an article now may not see it published until December.
