Lynn Klyde-Silverstein is a former reporter and copy editor. She worked for four years as a sports and news copy editor at the Connecticut Post in Bridgeport. She also spent three years as a sports reporter for the Herald-Sun in Durham, N.C., where she covered professional softball and Division I college basketball and soccer, as well as high school and recreational sports. She is the coordinator of the JMC's news-editorial sequence. Her teaching interests include newswriting, editing and layout, sportswriting and women in communications. She also teaches the MIND 292 class, Ideas in Conflict, with a special emphasis on the Olympics. The class will be offered as part of UNC's Pathways to China celebration in the spring of 2008. Read her blog, The Cranky Copy Editor.