Description
Plan, coordinate, revise, or edit written material. May review proposals and drafts for possible publication.
- • Prepare, rewrite and edit copy to improve readability, or supervise others who do this work.
- • Read copy or proof to detect and correct errors in spelling, punctuation, and syntax.
- • Allocate print space for story text, photos, and illustrations according to space parameters and copy significance, using knowledge of layout principles.
- • Plan the contents of publications according to the publication's style, editorial policy, and publishing requirements.
- • Verify facts, dates, and statistics, using standard reference sources.
- • Review and approve proofs submitted by composing room prior to publication production.
- • Develop story or content ideas, considering reader or audience appeal.
- • Oversee publication production, including artwork, layout, computer typesetting, and printing, ensuring adherence to deadlines and budget requirements.
- • Confer with management and editorial staff members regarding placement and emphasis of developing news stories.
- • Assign topics, events and stories to individual writers or reporters for coverage.
- • Read, evaluate and edit manuscripts or other materials submitted for publication, and confer with authors regarding changes in content, style or organization, or publication.
- • Monitor news-gathering operations to ensure utilization of all news sources, such as press releases, telephone contacts, radio, television, wire services, and other reporters.
- • Meet frequently with artists, typesetters, layout personnel, marketing directors, and production managers to discuss projects and resolve problems.
- • Supervise and coordinate work of reporters and other editors.
- • Make manuscript acceptance or revision recommendations to the publisher.
- • Select local, state, national, and international news items received from wire services, based on assessment of items' significance and interest value.
- • Interview and hire writers and reporters or negotiate contracts, royalties, and payments for authors or freelancers.
- • Direct the policies and departments of newspapers, magazines and other publishing establishments.
- • Arrange for copyright permissions.
- • Read material to determine index items and arrange them alphabetically or topically, indicating page or chapter location.
- • Write text, such as stories, articles, editorials, or newsletters.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
