ACES: The Society for Editing is a professional association of international scope for editors who work on every kind of content, including newspapers, magazines, websites, books, scholarly journals, and corporate communications.
[4] In 2008, the board approved changes that allowed copy editors working outside traditional journalism organizations full membership with voting rights.
ACES: The Society for Editing offers numerous scholarships, fellowships and awards to various editors annually.
Attendees include editors for newspapers, magazines, websites, trade publications, book publishers, nonprofit agencies and corporations, as well as students, journalism professors, consultants and freelancers.
The idea that led to the creation of ACES was nurtured during a series of three conferences about copy editing sponsored by the American Society of Newspaper Editors in 1995 and 1996.