If you can’t find a person in your organization with these skills, you can obtain the services of a professional. Many editors work on a freelance, per hour or per assignment basis, and you can find them through an editorial agency or even on the Internet.
The most efficient way to work with an editor is to work online. Whether someone within your organization will do the editing or you contract for the services of a freelancer, you can send your newsletter file to the editor as an attachment to e-mail.
He or she can then open it in a program such as Microsoft Word and turn on the Track Changes feature, which keeps your original but displays all the editorial changes and queries in a different color and indicates insertions and deletions. When you get the file back, it’s easy to see who did what when. You can then accept or reject the changes, finalize your document, and distribute it.
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