editor:
(plural: ‘editors‘; female (old usage) – editress; for the right pronunciation of this word, please click here)
a person who edits, i.e. removes or adds something in a written matter, as a job;
a person who writes editorial columns in newspapers,
Bina Murarka, editor, Life & Style magazine, India
My uncle has been an editor at the local newspaper and knows a lot about how newspaper printing was done in the past and how it is done with the help of modern technology in the present.
To be an editor a person must have thorough knowledge in languages, public interests, contemporary trends in fashion and entertainment, and every other aspect of life in general.
There are different types of editors: newspaper editor = an employee who decides what types of news to be printed, where and when; chief editor = an employee who supervises and advises several junior or assistant editors in a newspaper publishing company or TV news channel; sports editor = a person who decides what types of sports news to be printed or shown; film editor = an expert who removes or adds the numerous shots in a movie/film to give a continuous sequence to the audience; news editor = an expert who decides what type of news to be broad cast and when; book editor = an expert who knows what parts in a book to be removed or changed or added and in what order the paragraphs to be printed in a book.
