editor

[Ed·i*tor]

Newspaper editors don't write the stories, but they come up with the story ideas, assign them to writers, read all of the drafts, and correct and change them to make them ready to be published.

...

One who edits; esp., a person who prepares, superintends, revises, and corrects a book, magazine, or newspaper, etc., for publication.

Noun
(computer science) a program designed to perform such editorial functions as rearrangement or modification or deletion of data

Noun
a person responsible for the editorial aspects of publication; the person who determines the final content of a text (especially of a newspaper or magazine)


n.
One who edits; esp., a person who prepares, superintends, revises, and corrects a book, magazine, or newspaper, etc., for publication.


Editor

Ed"i*tor , n. [L., that which produces, from edere to publish: cf. F. '82diteur.] One who edits; esp., a person who prepares, superintends, revises, and corrects a book, magazine, or newspaper, etc., for publication.

One who edits; esp., a person who prepares, superintends, revises, and corrects a book, magazine, or newspaper, etc., for publication.

...

Usage Examples

If I weren't performing, I'd be a beauty editor or a therapist. I love creativity, but I also love to help others. My mother was a hairstylist, and they listen to everyone's problems - like a beauty therapist!

My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be.

I got that experience through dating dozens of men for six years after college, getting an entry level magazine job at 21, working in the fiction department at Good Housekeeping and then working as a fashion editor there as well as writing many articles for the magazine.

The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.

I had always loved to write and my mom was my editor for my school papers.

Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with one's own understanding of how to understand the world.

But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most.

I've been leading newsrooms for a while now and it's been an honor serving as Editor in Chief of N.J., but I really think that my best shot at moving the needle in politics is by getting close to it - by reading, reporting, tweeting and writing.

Misspelled Form

editor, weditor, 3editor, 4editor, reditor, seditor, deditor, wditor, 3ditor, 4ditor, rditor, sditor, dditor, ewditor, e3ditor, e4ditor, erditor, esditor, edditor, esditor, eeditor, efditor, exditor, ecditor, esitor, eeitor, efitor, exitor, ecitor, edsitor, edeitor, edfitor, edxitor, edcitor, eduitor, ed8itor, ed9itor, edoitor, edjitor, edkitor, edutor, ed8tor, ed9tor, edotor, edjtor, edktor, ediutor, edi8tor, edi9tor, ediotor, edijtor, ediktor, edirtor, edi5tor, edi6tor, ediytor, edigtor, ediror, edi5or, edi6or, ediyor, edigor, editror, edit5or, edit6or, edityor, editgor, editior, edit9or, edit0or, editpor, editlor, editir, edit9r, edit0r, editpr, editlr, editoir, edito9r, edito0r, editopr, editolr, editoer, edito4r, edito5r, editotr, editofr, editoe, edito4, edito5, editot, editof, editore, editor4, editor5, editort, editorf.

Other Usage Examples

I was sports editor for my high school newspaper, but I think I shied away from journalism.

I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page.

One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. When I was ready to graduate, the sports editor gave me a job as a schoolboy sports writer.

What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times.

He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldn't say the 'guru' - but really he was our teacher and a most respected man. I wrote for the paper of the youth movement.

I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.

Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Writing doesn't come real easy to me. I couldn't write a novel in a year. It wouldn't be readable. I don't let an editor even look at it until the second year, because it would just scare them. I just have to trust that all these scraps and dead-ends will find a way.

Comments


Browse Dictionary