What's the difference between editor and subeditor?

Editor


Definition:

  • (n.) One who edits; esp., a person who prepares, superintends, revises, and corrects a book, magazine, or newspaper, etc., for publication.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Older women and those who present more archetypically as butch have an easier time of it (because older women in general are often sidelined by the press and society) and because butch women are often viewed as less attractive and tantalising to male editors and readers.
  • (2) Mark Latham's insights, insults and feuds are why he's worth reading | Gay Alcorn Read more BuzzFeed political editor Mark Di Stefano, the reporter who broke the story linking Latham to the less-than-savoury @RealMarkLatham Twitter account , had been chasing Stutchbury for days.
  • (3) The decision of the editors to solicit a review for the Medical Progress series of this journal devoted to current concepts of the renal handling of salt and water is sound in that this important topic in kidney physiology has recently been the object of a number of new, exciting and, in some instances, quite unexpected insights into the mechanisms governing sodium excretion.
  • (4) UPDATE II [Tues.] Two other items that may be of interest: first, Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger was the guest for the full hour yesterday on Democracy Now, discussing the paper's role in reporting the NSA stories, and the video and transcript of the interview are here ; second, marking our collaboration on a series of articles about spying on Indians, the Hindu has a long interview with me on a variety of related topics, here .
  • (5) The private eye was well known to the News of the World, having worked for the paper for several years before he was jailed, when Coulson was deputy editor.
  • (6) Dean Baquet, the managing editor in question, does admit in the piece that walking out was not perhaps the best thing for a senior editor like him to do.
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Columnist Jonathan Freedland and economics editor Larry Elliott discuss the late-night deal that the Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras has agreed to When it comes to the now-abandoned Thessaloniki Programme, the radical manifesto on which Alexis Tsipras came to power, there is always talk of implementing it “from below”: that is, demanding so many workers’ rights inside the industries designated for privatisation that it becomes impossible; or implementing the minimum wage through wildcat strikes.
  • (8) There was a testy set of exchanges between the editor and Michael Ellis.
  • (9) Soon after the takeover, PFD creative director Sue Douglas, the former Sunday Express editor, left amid reports that the company wasn't big enough for "two alpha females in Chanel".
  • (10) The Sun editor also said his newspaper was wrong to use the word "tran" in a headline to describe a transexual, saying that he felt that "I don't know this is our greatest moment, to be honest".
  • (11) January 2011 • Ian Edmondson, the News of the World's assistant editor (news), is suspended following a "serious allegation" relating to phone hacking during Andy Coulson's editorship of the paper.
  • (12) First, I recapped Die Hard 2 – the insane cross-eyed Gizmo of the Die Hard world – a few months ago, and now I'm secretly determined to do the whole series before the Guardian film editors wise up and yank this feature from my warm, live hands.
  • (13) In a telling moment, 17 editors of both state and private newspapers collectively pledged in November to avoid criticising the state.
  • (14) ran one forecast in full, a none- too-subtle broadside at his editors.
  • (15) Hope u feel better xx” Bird told Channel 4’s political editor Michael Crick: “Natasha Bolter and I were in a consensual relationship between 18 September and 2 November, well after her admission to the list of approved candidates.
  • (16) Joan Condijts, editor in chief of L'Echo, said the investment climate and employment opportunities in Belgium were attracting wealthy French.
  • (17) He moved on to Tunis and Paris, and became editor-in-chief of the influential literary review Al-Karmel.
  • (18) "This has been a challenging time for the BMJ but I am very pleased the panel has taken the view that we acted appropriately," said BMJ editor in chief, Dr Fiona Godlee.
  • (19) Anuraj Sivarajah, online editor of the newspaper, said he was very clear who was to blame for the attacks and arson that has brought the newspaper near financial ruin.
  • (20) "This is the biggest march I've ever been on," said Amira Ahmed, a 29-year-old business editor at an Egyptian newspaper.

Subeditor


Definition:

  • (n.) An assistant editor, as of a periodical or journal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His career at Trinity Mirror began in 1994 when he joined the Daily Mirror as a subeditor.
  • (2) During his years in the journalistic ranks, he was a subeditor at the Daily Mirror, before becoming chief sub, moving to the Sun as chief sub in 1980 and then becoming assistant editor at the People.
  • (3) The trouble was, Dent said, that she was surrounded by people – television producers, subeditors – who wanted to “save me from myself”.
  • (4) Also in October, it was revealed that DMGT's morning freesheet Metro had begun a round of redundancies and that the Daily Mail was planning to move subeditors from a four-day week to a nine-day fortnight.
  • (5) Its editor, Stéphane Charbonnier, known as Charb, was dead, as were nine key cartoonists, contributors and subeditors, as well as a visitor to the offices.
  • (6) Having twice not quite started university, he joined BBC Scotland as a subeditor at the age of 22, and soon began to host its flagship radio and television shows: Good Morning Scotland and Reporting Scotland.
  • (7) Nick Clegg Sr's parents, who married in 1932, were Hugh Anthony Clegg, a subeditor on the British Medical Journal, and Kira Engelhardt.
  • (8) Curriculum vitae Age 60 Education Clifton College, Bristol; Exeter College, Oxford Career 1969 deputy features editor, the Liverpool Post 1974 subeditor, news, the Guardian 1976 chief subeditor, news 1981 deputy sports editor 1985 arts editor 1990 Weekend magazine editor 1993 features editor 1996 assistant editor 1998 editor, the Observer 2008 editor, the Independent
  • (9) On 11 September 1929 the Wall Street Journal quoted Mark Twain for its thought of the day: “Don’t part with your illusions; when they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.” Whatever that day’s subeditors thought they were doing, their choice now sounds as falsely confident as a rambler about to step off a ledge.
  • (10) Most departments will adopt this one-shift system starting at 7am and working through to 3.30pm with a one-hour break - including news, subeditors, City, sport, diary and the picture desk.
  • (11) He went on to hold a number of different production positions, including deputy chief subeditor, assistant night editor, night editor and assistant editor, and worked alongside former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan.
  • (12) Surely Hislop knows that Marr is in a different category from the horde of philandering newspaper reporters, subeditors and, yes, editors, who are of no interest to the red-top privacy invaders.
  • (13) Embley, an avid Aston Villa fan, began his media career as a trainee reporter on a local weekly the Daventry Express, rising to the role of deputy editor before joining the Northants Evening Telegraph as subeditor and later as the head of production.
  • (14) Apart from producing a perfectly honed 700-word feature on that day's topic (as the following two extracts reveal), Arnold added a frisson to the task by including a phrase or saying that was to be proposed by subeditors Jonathan Bouquet and John Barton.

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