This summer reviewed

I'm at a lull at work right now. I turned in my third-to-last story 45ish minutes ago. There are 15 minutes more until it hits the time my editor suggested for my exit interview.

It's been a wonderful summer. I've been working full time at an internship with the Deseret News. It's funny; on a day like today, my last day of work, you'd think I'd feel a little more nostalgic. Maybe it won't really sink in until Monday morning, when I plan to sleep in, in sunny California.

Five minutes. I'm hoping my source for the last two articles on my story list will email me back before 5 p.m. today. We'll see what happens.

The work atmosphere here at Mormon Times & Features is superb. Everyone is super nice. They take their work seriously, but they find ways to have a lot of fun, too. They have answered all my questions over the summer. Aaron (my editor) and Bob (another editor) have even reviewed articles for me before I turned them in because I wanted extra feedback.

Time.

Delayed. I'll go back in 40 minutes. But for now, a continuation of that review I promised you.

From my list of things editors have corrected me about:

1. Remember to put in a dateline (SALT LAKE CITY)
2. Lowercase my headlines
3. Names of newspapers don't get italicized
4. When doing Odds and Ends, always put the publication (where the information is from)
5. When reading over a finished story, look for interesting details that could be pulled up/referenced sooner
6. Be consistent with tense
7. "LDS Church," capital C
8. According to AP style, ages above 10 are spelled out (eleven-year-old, twelve)
9. Capitalize W in "Web" (Web series)
10. "Over" refers to spatial things only; "more than" is numerical
11. According to AP style, use figures with million or billion in all except casual cases: "I'd like to make a million dollars." BUT: "The nation had 1 million people."
12. If you have to use a lot of ellipses in quotes, you need to cut parts of the quote, leaving only the exceptional
13. According to AP style, abbreviate months with days (Aug. 17)
14. According to AP style, numbers below 10 are spelled out. Use figures for 10 and above
15. When it comes to millions and billions, the word "dollars" isn't needed. Just write $3 billion

Exit interview down. Aaron and Christine (assistant editor) had some good things to say about me and what I can do better.

I just reviewed my last article to see what the editor changed. I think it's some of my best work and a good note to end on.

It's time to turn this computer back in and relinquish my bus pass and name badge. Thank you for a great summer, Deseret News!