Chief Copy Editor

Patrick Masterson

I joined the automotive industry in 2016 as a lifelong car enthusiast and have achieved the rare feat of applying my journalism and media arts degrees as a writer, fact-checker, proofreader and editor my entire professional career, which has somehow been more than a decade solely at Cars.com and currently as Chief Copy Editor. I live by an in-house version of the AP stylebook and know where the semicolons can go, which you can occasionally find updated proof of in the stories

below.

Articles by Patrick Masterson

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By Patrick Masterson
March 23, 2018
Approximately 255,000 model-year 2014-16 Honda Odyssey minivans are 
 being recalled.
By Patrick Masterson
March 22, 2018
By Patrick Masterson
March 19, 2018
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 Check out our link guide here.
By Patrick Masterson
March 16, 2018
Approximately 5,300 model-year 2013-16 Ford Focus cars and 2013-15 
 Fusion sedans are being recalled.
By Patrick Masterson
March 14, 2018
Approximately 1.3 million model-year 2014-18 Ford Fusion and Lincoln 
 MKZ sedans are being recalled for a steering-wheel bolt.
By Patrick Masterson
March 14, 2018
Approximately 1,500 model-year 2018 Alfa Romeo Stelvio SUVs are being 
 recalled for software in the windshield wiper motor.
By Patrick Masterson
March 13, 2018
Approximately 17,000 model-year 2014 Fiat Chrysler Automobiles are 
 being recalled for their alternators.
By Patrick Masterson
March 13, 2018
Interested in getting a new car, but you're not sure of how to go about it? 
 Check out our link guide here.
By Patrick Masterson
March 9, 2018
Interested in getting a new car, but you're not sure of how to go about it? 
 Check out our link guide here.
By Patrick Masterson
March 9, 2018