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The phrase "as first editor" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate the role or position of someone in the context of editing a document, publication, or project.
Example: "The manuscript was submitted to the publisher with John listed as first editor, ensuring his contributions were recognized."
Alternatives: "as the primary editor" or "in the role of lead editor".
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He served as first editor of this magazine, and later on its Editorial Board.
His proposals for a new dictionary were implemented in 1859, when Samuel Taylor Coleridge's grandnephew, Herbert Coleridge, set to work as first editor.
Henry Jarvis Raymond, (born Jan . 24 , 1820near Lima, N.Y., U.S. died June 18 , 1869 New York City), U.S. journalist and politician who, as first editor and chief proprietor of The New York Times (from 1851), did much to elevate the style and tone of contemporary newspapers and who was prominent in forming the Republican Party.
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As the first editor of "About Men," which made its debut as a weekly column in 1983 and ran until 1996, he signed up many of the writers who made the column one of the magazine's most popular features.
When it was finally agreed to launch an Observer magazine, Astor appointed assistant editor Michael Davie as its first editor.
He joined The Post in 1977 as the first editor of Page Six.
Serving as the first editor of The Dial, the transcendentalist quarterly, should have earned her a more regular income.
Huffington served as the first editor in chief of The Huffington Post and was herself a frequent blogger on the site.
Then there are all those "friends of the paper", as my first editor called them, to look up.
Mr. Brumberg came to wide public attention in the early 1950s as the first editor of the journal Problems of Communism.
The Paris Review, American literary quarterly founded in 1953 by Peter Matthiessen, Harold L. Humes, and George Plimpton, with Plimpton also serving as the first editor.
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