David Jón Fuller

Copy editor

David Jón Fuller is a copy editor with a lifelong love of writing and working in newspapers.

His first taste of editing on tight deadlines came at his high school paper in the 1980s, when cutting and pasting were literal — wax-strip articles were sliced into shape and line-border tape was cut with dangerously sharp X-acto blades.

His non-linear career path included a degree in theatre at the University of Winnipeg and two years studying Icelandic language, literature and history at the University of Iceland in Reykjavík, where he also got to know some of his extended Icelandic relations.

These led indirectly to apprenticing and then working as a proofreader for Winnipeg theatre press Blizzard Publishing, as well as copy editing and doing layout at Icelandic ethnic newspaper Lögberg-Heimskringla, where he was later managing editor.

David started at the Free Press in 2007, mainly copy editing news but eventually wrangling words and headlines for every section of the newspaper. He moved from print publication to web copy editing in 2011.

His online headline writing earned him third place in the American Copy Editing Society‘s annual competition in 2013 and 2014. He took top honours in 2012 when he submitted a hypothetical slogan for Canada to a New York radio show and won an all-expenses paid trip to Washington, D.C.

In addition to editing for the Free Press, David also regularly writes reviews for the Books section, and has occasionally written features on topics including Indigenous soldiers in the First World War and Canadian supehero comics, as well as opinion pieces on bike lanes.

He also writes speculative fiction, and his short stories have been published in Canada, the U.S., the U.K., and France. His debut novel, Venue 13, is out in 2026 from Turnstone Press’s Ravenstone imprint.