The phrase "as the 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: "As the first editor, I had the responsibility of shaping the overall direction of the manuscript."
Alternatives: "in my capacity as the initial editor" or "in the role of the primary 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.
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.
As the first editor (1918 33) of the Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft ("Journal of Musicology"), he held a position of considerable authority in his field.
Mr. Brumberg came to wide public attention in the early 1950s as the first editor of the journal Problems of Communism.
"The tasty little family" — as the first editor of The New Yorker, Harold Ross, called them — were figures of startling caprice, grotesques inhabiting a bourgeois world while taking revenge on its suffocating decency.
I am delighted and honored to have been selected as the first Editor-in-Chief of AAPS Open, an open-access journal devoted to the rapid publication of quality articles in the pharmaceutical sciences.
Dan was the founder and served as the first editor-in-chief of Brandeis' newest literary and arts magazine, Jaded, and was very active in clubs that advocated for Asian-American rights.
The service bridged Klebnikov's remarkable 41 years as well as the two cultures that influenced the first editor of FORBES RUSSIA, shot dead in Moscow July 9.
Mr O'Ragan joins the Irish Independent as the eighth editor of the newspaper after six years as the editor of Independent News & Media's sister paper, the Evening Herald.
Appointed as the second editor of Independent Television News (ITN) in 1956, he launched News at Ten in 1967 as the first half-hour news programme in peak time on a mass audience channel.
