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The phrase "a time when editors" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a specific period or occasion involving editors, often in discussions about their roles or activities.
Example: "There was a time when editors played a crucial role in shaping the narrative of the publication."
Alternatives: "an era in which editors" or "a period during which editors".
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So sweetly cumbersome — a throwback, like the form itself, to a time when editors at general-interest magazines weren't regularly forced to turn full-length articles into "long captions".
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But back then, Harry Evans's Sunday Times was the top paper at a time when Fleet Street editors published and were heard.
And since he's too self-absorbed to be a good observer, we miss learning much about literary London at a time when rival editors could duel to the death.
"I think there was a time when being executive editor and managing editor of a big successful newspaper meant only thinking about the news coverage, and only thinking about the news coverage of a print newspaper," Baquet said.
The nonfiction constraints of libel, taste and feeling were just what he needed at a time when his internal editor seems to have collapsed.
The Post is the Ozymandias of American magazines — once mightiest of all, it now exists merely as a stump in the sands — but Fitzgerald was as much, and as proudly, a Post writer as P. G. Wodehouse was, at a time when George Horace Lorimer, the editor of the Post, was as much a legend as Harold Ross, of this magazine, was later.
Those of us with long memories remember a time when the then Australian editor Michael Stutchbury was equally obsessed with Media Watch and he wrote his own web-based column about Media Watch every time he was moved to do so.
The tax hit printers hard, at a time when printers were also the editors of newspapers, and sometimes their chief writers, too.
A tax increase in 1935 corresponded with an increase in the taxable incomes of the rich at a time when William Randolph Hearst ordered his newspaper editors to christen the New Deal the "Raw Deal" and harangue Franklin Roosevelt for his attempts to "soak the successful .Mr Goolsbee also questioned whether the behaviour of the rich hurt growth over the long run.
But he declined to say whether the I.H.T. would retain a separate executive editor at a time when the paper is being integrated more closely with The New York Times.
"It's a privilege to become ITV's first ever security editor at a time when national and global security require so much of our attention," said Kachroo.
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