This year, the Consulting Editors Board, which was the board of subordinate editors supervising the peer-review process, changed its name to Associate Editors Board, with an increased number of members and, more importantly, a declared and limited area of expertise for each member.
Several titanium dwellers witnessed the fun when an unidentified subordinate asked several lunching junior editors to vacate a coveted window table "because Ms. Wintour is coming down and needs a booth".
Complex sentences, with one or more subordinate clauses, often entangle writer and editor in an ungrammatical snarl.
And Gina Centrello, 43, the publisher of Ballantine and now of the combined division, Random House Ballantine, is still searching for an editor to fill the diminished, subordinate role of editor in chief of the Random House list.
Hey, what does a copy editor call Santa's elves? A. Subordinate Clauses!) Often, they check facts even when fact-checking is not and never has been the job of a copy editor.
In meetings with subordinates, Ms. Mayer comes across as a zealous copy editor or meticulous art teacher correcting first-semester students.
On his own admission this is a pretty routine procedure for the editor of the Daily Mail, whose subordinates have affectionately been known to call the boss's daily exhortations to do better the Vagina Monologues.
As the hierarchy changed, editors, once considered first among equals, became subordinate to publishers and their access to the top levels of the company began to diminish.
It's a man's Hollywood, which they emphasize with a series of smart and capable women (such as Eddie's secretary, Natalie, played by Heather Goldenhersh, and the Thelma Ritter like film editor C. C. Calhoun, played by Frances McDormand), who are in inescapably subordinate positions.
The drama, premiering Friday on Amazon, opens in late 1969 in the offices of News of the Week, a prestigious magazine where men are editors and writers while women are relegated to subordinate roles as mail girls and fact-checkers. .
