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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
editor
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a newspaper editor
▪ Newspaper editors have a lot of power.
city editor
copy editor
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
assistant
▪ Climber assistant editor Tom Prentice and leader Keith Milne reached the summit of the 6,904m mountain after 13 days.
▪ Newsroom and management hopes have settled on Ann-Eve Pedersen, currently an assistant city editor.
▪ Normally, the inconsistency wouldn't matter, but it might now that she's assistant editor.
▪ The job is going to Ann McDaniel, an assistant managing editor who has been commuting to New York for four years.
▪ Guy Riddihough is an assistant editor of Nature.
▪ From being a member of the foreign / national staff, I returned to metro as one of several assistant metro editors.
deputy
▪ David Prosser is deputy editor of Money Observer Expatriates, just like everyone else, need to save for old age.
▪ She succeeds Bonnie Fuller who will join Cosmopolitan as deputy editor.
executive
▪ He became executive arts editor of the Calendar section in 1981 and served in that capacity for a decade.
▪ Bob Merry has been named publisher of Congressional Quarterly after six years as executive editor.
▪ In the novel, the character based on Rense herself is among the suspects in the murder of executive editor Beau Paxton.
▪ He pulled the same junk with Star executive editor Darth Auslander.
literary
▪ He had told her that he had to be quick on the phone because his literary editor was listening to him.
▪ Joe wrote extensively for the magazine and became a literary editor during his final year.
▪ In 1935 he became literary editor of the Listener, a post he held for twenty-four years.
▪ He contributed to the Grotonian and be-came literary editor in his sixth-form year.
▪ They were headed by the Guardian's literary editor, Claire Armitstead.
▪ When Amis became literary editor of the New Statesman, he appointed Barnes his deputy.
▪ There should be an agreement among literary editors, not to employ Kingsley Amis to review any book dealing with humour.
new
▪ There are new integrated editors for digitised sound play and editing - sound can be imported from Windows or AdLib files.
▪ For the first time in 32 years, the issue has a new editor.
▪ In May we received another referee's report and a letter from the new editor of the journal.
▪ The new editor did not know he was pretending and promising to be something that he was not-yet!
▪ We were dismayed to learn that the new editor was making decisions without access to the full file on our paper.
▪ Several of the magazines were also going through identity crises, with new editors trying to redefine Vanity Fair and Mademoiselle.
▪ A new female editor found it sexist.
▪ Each year a new guest editor works with Kenison in selecting the 20 or so stories that make up the collection.
political
▪ Peter Riddell is political editor of die Financial Times.
▪ She had been with the paper since 1983, starting on the copy desk and ending as political editor.
▪ Our political editor, Jon Lander, assesses Mr Heseltine's political future.
▪ They are the political editors and senior correspondents of most of our television stations and national and regional newspapers.
▪ Beugre, the political editor, recalled riding in a cab last year.
senior
▪ I had been a senior editor at Ma'ariv, the country's largest newspaper.
▪ When he left People in 1986, he was a senior editor.
▪ And the Press Council called senior editors to the first extraordinary meeting convened in its twenty-seven-year history to discuss the matter.
▪ I take it personally, as I suspect Nethaway, senior editor of the Waco Tribune-Herald, intended it.
▪ Even if the newspapers are licensed again, the most senior editors will be in jail.
▪ Our sense of injustice has been shared by three senior journals editors we have discussed the matter with.
▪ Henry Gee is a senior editor of Nature.
■ NOUN
associate
▪ Dave Shors, associate editor of the Helena Independent Record, can tell you all about it.
city
▪ Or as city editor of a national newspaper?
▪ It would seem to leave the Star city editor with absolutely nothing to do, an empty suit with an empty schedule.
▪ Joined the Guardian in 1963, and served successively as deputy editor, managing editor and City editor until 1974.
▪ Newsroom and management hopes have settled on Ann-Eve Pedersen, currently an assistant city editor.
▪ By sophomore year I was city editor of the Crimson, a big honor for one so young.
▪ The city editor, Arax reports, had had numerous drunken-driving arrests voided by the police chief.
▪ She started at the Guardian in 1993 as city editor.
▪ And, that is how I was contacted by the city editor and hired.
copy
▪ She has worked, on and off, as a freelance proof reader and copy editor for a national publisher.
fashion
▪ Toning Whoever heard of any of them being groomed by a fashion editor and strapped into toning pinks for a photo call?
▪ Egged on by some publicity cooked up by the fashion editor, she and her sister Carole got a book contract.
▪ Nicholas Knightly was the name that a lot of fashion editors were instead catching up with.
▪ Then there were the fashion editors that could have described her chemise frock while she did the shooting.
▪ A leading fashion editor suggests that in fact we have too many, rather than too few, clothes.
▪ The trip to Milan would otherwise have undoubtedly fallen to her, as the nominal fashion editor.
▪ Model Orla feigns sleep and eve fashion editor Sarah Newton looks on.
magazine
▪ But so cool is the blue minimalist card that one style magazine editor aspired to name his baby son Sony.
▪ The magazine editor offered me his moist, soft hand; then I was left alone at the table with my brother.
▪ That night we went to a party given by a magazine editor.
news
▪ Contacts: News editors and news desk reporters, picture editors, specialist editors and correspondents.
▪ I alerted my news editor and then rushed back to type the gruesome details.
▪ He rejoined Newsday in 1979, left to work as a news editor on the Daily News' short-lived Tonight edition.
▪ National daily and Sunday newspaper news editors.
▪ It was a godsend to news editors.
newspaper
▪ It is hard not to sympathise with those simple-minded viewers and tabloid newspaper editors who mistake the characters for the actors.
▪ He is aided by the courageous local newspaper editor and a retired missionary woman.
▪ And much of how this appears is the decision of the newspaper editors.
▪ In fact, newspaper editors sometimes do not even exercise control over large sections of their newspapers.
▪ Regional daily and weekly newspaper editor and reporters of those papers near to plant and offices.
▪ They said Hegel had had to become a newspaper editor, a schoolmaster.
▪ Everyone, even newspaper editors, were caught unawares by the Princess Diana phenomenon.
▪ But newspaper editors say there's no way a fair privacy law could be made to work.
picture
▪ Dexter liked the picture editor and felt at ease with him.
▪ So much so that the picture editor, who had approved it, lost his job.
▪ Stephen Shakeshaft, Echo picture editor.
▪ Nothing irritates a daily newspaper picture editor more than an allegedly topical photograph sent to him by post.
▪ Contacts: News editors and news desk reporters, picture editors, specialist editors and correspondents.
▪ But one happened to be free for a couple of hours along with the picture editor who cut Nicola's last report.
▪ Franks introduced him as Terry, the picture editor.
▪ Until the picture editor saw my ankles.
■ VERB
become
▪ A year later he moved again, to become deputy editor of the party's turgid theoretical review, Tarsadalmi Szemle.
▪ He became executive arts editor of the Calendar section in 1981 and served in that capacity for a decade.
▪ Eddie wrote light verse and became editor of Punch.
▪ Joe wrote extensively for the magazine and became a literary editor during his final year.
▪ Would she herself end up like that, if she achieved her ambition of becoming the managing editor of a magazine?
▪ Gilster argues that, unlike previous media, the Internet imposes new demands on readers to become their own editors and critics.
manage
▪ Christopher Price is managing editor of EONews.net.
▪ The desk assistant advises the managing editor of this.
▪ I ended up number one in the class, managing editor of the paper, and started a literary magazine.
▪ The managing editor is responsible for all.
▪ Each will be led by an associate managing editor who will report to the managing editor.
▪ The job is going to Ann McDaniel, an assistant managing editor who has been commuting to New York for four years.
write
▪ I wrote to the editors of all the major newspapers and television channels asking them to cover the anniversary.
▪ The commander wrote to the editor, demanding an apology.
▪ Some have been moved to write letters to the editor or to the reviewer.
▪ Not the kind who write letters to the editor to complain about injustice.
▪ They held press conferences and wrote letters to the editor.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Arch Ward became sports editor of the Chicago Tribune.
▪ Berendt, a magazine editor and columnist (he was once editor of NewYork magazine), first visited Savannah in 1982.
▪ Cummings is the editor of a local newspaper.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As the chic, glamourous aviation editor, Amelia, of course, was limited to writing about flying.
▪ Cyril Causeley, Walter Machin's editor at Jackson's, was hospitality itself.
▪ He could have called the editor of the opinion page.
▪ He has been a reporter, Washington correspondent, system editor, state editor and Baltimore County bureau chief.
▪ Normally, the inconsistency wouldn't matter, but it might now that she's assistant editor.
▪ Others give a complete breakdown of specialist editors and correspondents.
▪ Pilger himself would remain editor in chief as agreed.
▪ The business managers or the section editors?
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Editor

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

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
editor

1640s, "publisher," from Latin editor "one who puts forth," agent noun from editus, past participle of edere (see edition). By 1712 in sense of "person who prepares written matter for publication;" specific sense in newspapers is from 1803.

Wiktionary
editor

n. 1 A person who edits or makes changes to documents. 2 A copy editor. 3 A person who edited a specific document. 4 A person at a newspaper or similar institution who edits stories and decides which ones to publish. 5 A machine used for editing (cutting and splicing) movie film 6 (context computer software English) A program for create and make changes to files, especially text files. 7 (context television cinematography English) Someone who manipulates video footage and assembles it into the correct order etc for broadcast; a picture editor.

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WordNet
editor

  1. n. 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) [syn: editor in chief]

  2. (computer science) a program designed to perform such editorial functions as rearrangement or modification or deletion of data [syn: editor program]

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Wikipedia
Editor (disambiguation)

An editor is a person who edits or makes changes to documents.

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Usage examples of "editor".

The name of his partially duped accomplice and abettor in this last marvelous assault, is no other than PHILIP LYNCH, Editor and Proprietor of the Gold Hill News.

Indeed, based on its public agenda, The American Society of Newspaper Editors might think about changing its name to the American Society of Racial Bean Counters.

There was a producer, a director, and an editor whose names sounded real: Joseph Ayers, Morton Kasselbaum, and Chester Ellis.

In the credits, the producer, director, and film editor were all listed by name: Joseph Ayers, Morton Kasselbaum, and Chester Ellis respectively.

In this new edition, the text and the notes have been carefully revised, the latter by the editor.

Even though not all reporters and editors were bigots, at some level they saw blacks as different, as alien, as more dangerous, as out of the mainstream and, of course, as inferior.

He stood beside it, smiling, nodding the editor and little Bling onto the divan and the beefy photographer into the wide loveseat.

To get Bling off the hook, the editor asked if it might be possible to take a drive out to the Beijing campus to look over the sports scene, maybe catch a track practice.

Lord Bute had founded two papers, The Briton and The Auditor, and had set up the novelist Tobias Smollett as editor of the former.

I waited until his patrol car was at the road before I drove to the newspaper and the busy, busy typing of Cece Dee Falcon, society editor.

Before Cece became society editor and long before she became my source for historical Sunflower County facts, Cece was Cecil.

I think it was then I began to see my little object-town Centennial in a rather larger dimension than the editors back in New York saw it.

I am especially grateful to my editors, Betsy Mitchell of Del Rey, and Jane Johnson and Emma Coode of HarperCollins UK, for their insights and excellent advice.

No more crumby editors fresh from Harvard with Phi Beta Kappa keys hanging on their weskits.

Two weeks later, on June 5, 2003, less than a month after the Times mea culpa, the papers two highest-ranking editors, executive editor Howell Raines and managing editor Gerald Boyd, resigned.