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Discover LudwigThe word "subeditor" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in the context of publishing or journalism to refer to a person who edits content before it is published. Example: "The subeditor reviewed the article for clarity and grammar before it went to print." Alternatives include "assistant editor" or "copy editor."
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subeditor
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An assistant editor, usually in a specific department of a newspaper.
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Email: [email protected] / Twitter: @MadhviPa Patrick Keneally subeditor Patrick previously worked as a subeditor at the Guardian in London.
After starting out in interiors magazines as a subeditor, she beat her goal of becoming an editor before the age of 30: at 25, she was editor of Real Homes and, later, Inspired Living.
Roy Greenslade, who was a subeditor on the paper at the time, recalls that it was Lamb, however, who had been trying to come up with a publicity gimmick in November 1970 to mark the first anniversary of the paper's relaunch under Murdoch.
Graham was also chief subeditor at Metro newspaper in London.
Email: [email protected] / Twitter: @merran_h Janine Israel subeditor Janine has worked as a writer and subeditor for publications around the world, including Time Out Buenos Aires, the Irish Examiner, Rough Guides, Madison and the Sydney Morning Herald.
At the Times, where according to former colleagues she worked as a downtable subeditor, a middle-ranking production role, she was regarded as a loud, friendly and "incredibly earnest" figure whose strong accent occasionally grated and who threw herself into activities such as the paper's annual staff cricket match, at which her "looping dolly drops" were particularly well remembered.
In the two years before the outbreak of World War II, Camus served his apprenticeship as a journalist with Alger-Républicain in many capacities, including those of leader- (editorial-) writer, subeditor, political reporter, and book reviewer.
In 1844 he returned to New York, wrote "The Balloon Hoax" for the Sun, and became subeditor of the New York Mirror under N.P. Willis, thereafter a lifelong friend.
For three years, until 1854, she served as subeditor of The Westminster, which under her influence enjoyed its most brilliant run since the days of John Stuart Mill.
Across the Strand lived the subeditor of The Economist, Herbert Spencer, whose Social Statics (1851) Chapman had just published.
Having spent most of his life in the United States he worked for two years in Yemen as a freelance photojournalist, subeditor and interpreter for England-language newspapers.
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