The Collaborative International Dictionary
managing editor \managing editor\ n. The editor in charge of all editorial activities of a newspaper or magazine.
WordNet
n. the editor in charge of all editorial activities of a newspaper or magazine
Wikipedia
A managing editor is a senior member of a publication's management team. Typically, the managing editor (ME) reports directly to the Editor in Chief and oversees all aspects of the publication.
Usage examples of "managing editor".
Qwilleran went back to the office to check proofs, and he found a message to see the managing editor at once.
My predicament, which I'd rather not explain to Tarkington, is that I'll need more than a string of baroque incidents to sell the Jimmy Stoma story to our managing editor.
Usually such adherence to principle would cost a managing editor his job, but those days might be over.
He had an excellent managing editor in view, who would have to be paid more than Hearst paid him, which was far too much, but if anyone could salvage the Baltimore Examiner it would be one Charles Hapgood, a native of Maryland's eastern shore and eager to abandon Chicago's arctic winters and tropical summers for equable Baltimore.
They get paid as much, some of them, as the managing editor of a big magazine gets paid.
No other managing editor in the history of this newspaper can make that claim.
I'm a staff writer for the Daily Fluxion, and I'm going to report this to the managing editor.
He handed over a slip of paper with the phone number of the Morning Rampage and the name of the woman who was managing editor.
Now he knew why he'd declined a promotion to assistant managing editor.
In that time he'd have to verify, re-verify, and conference in with his assistant managing editor to make sure that he got the front page, above the fold.
Now he knew why he'd declined a promotion to Assistant Managing Editor.
Frank Fisher, managing editor of Index on Censorship and the type of troublemaker journalism desperately needs, was left in charge of publication while his superiors were out of London.
I'm the managing editor of the Associated Press, and I'm here for a conference.