Sentence examples for exacting editor from inspiring English sources

At the J-School, Spaulding taught courses in science and medical reporting, developing a reputation as an exacting editor and an excellent teacher.

A once celebrated novelist, Leonard is now best known as an exacting editor, teacher and grandstanding chronicler of life in danger zones in third-world countries (Moldova, Rwanda, Somalia), where he stares down "the most terrifying nihilism this planet has to offer".

Meryl Streep was nominated for an Oscar for her role as the exacting editor of Runway magazine in "The Devil Wears Prada," and Ms. Slowey ought to receive a reality-TV acting Emmy for playing a much more intimidating version of herself.

To top things off, for years he was a thorough and exacting editor of both fiction and nonfiction.

In the opening pages of his introductory essay to Karl Miller's new collection, Tretower to Clyro, we find young Andrew O'Hagan, Boswell to Miller's Johnson, reporting on an exchange he overheard in the office between the notoriously exacting editor and Seamus Heaney.

Paul, an exacting book editor (David Hyde Pierce), copy edits a letter from his daughter's headmaster.

Instead, he got a job in Little Rock, working for Paul Greenberg, the exacting editorial-page editor of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

Today, as its first guest editor, he exacts revenge.

"We don't assume anyone's telling us the exact truth," Randall Lane, the editor of Forbes, said in an interview by phone on Thursday about his magazine's methodology.

His interview answers often started confidently, with a rush of distant memories his report on the first integrated high-school dinner in Virginia, the name of his editor, the exact time he handed in his copy but foundered in tears when the words failed.

But doesn't fear attach itself to any demanding editor who sets exacting standards?