senior editor
Lead publication overseer
A senior editor is an editor with greater experience, authority, or rank than other editors at a publication or publishing house.
The title typically indicates someone who oversees major projects, manages other editors, or handles the most important content: She was promoted to senior editor after five years at the magazine.
In book publishing, senior editors often acquire titles and work directly with established authors.
- publishing houseCompany producing books
- fact-checkingConfirming accuracy of claims
- final cutApproved version for release
- kill feeCompensation for unpublished commissioned work
- publisherCompany releasing books
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- comics jobswriter, artist, penciler, penciller, inker
- editorialmasthead, opinion pages, endorsements, submissions
- publishing jobspublisher, writer, author, copyeditor, proofreader
- editingcut, copy, paste, delete, undo
- supervisorssupervisor, foreman, overseer, superintendent, boss
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Editorial support role
editorial assistant · intern · staff writer · trainee · junior staff
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Creator of texts
author · contributor · staff writer · freelance writer · content creator
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