subeditor
IPA: sʌbˈɛdʌtɝ
noun
- An assistant editor, usually in a specific department of a newspaper.
- (UK) A copy editor at a newspaper or magazine.
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Examples of "subeditor" in Sentences
- Sometimes a Mencken column went on for pages, and woe betide the subeditor who cut him.
- Heonce rode from his north London home to Winchester to visit a subeditor who was recovering from an operation.
- Could create job of personal subeditor, perhaps from ranks of ex-NOTW staff – do log on and send messages of support.
- I'm fortunate enough to make a bit of money from commissions, but I also earn a living as a freelance subeditor, which is very agreeable.
- Many a subeditor would be lost without "war", "battle" and "fight" – all appealingly pithy and loaded headline words – but again, where's the elegant variation?
- Devon-born stand-up Josh Widdicombe's had a rather unusual comedy career, having started out as an occasional sports subeditor at of all the most unlikely arenas for humour the Guardian.
- Having trained on the Richmond & Twickenham Times group of newspapers in south-west London, then owned by Question Time presenter David Dimbleby, Bilmes joined Condé Nast in 1997 as a subeditor on the now-defunct GQ Active.
- But if they are good, the options for redeployment within News Corp are endless, so there is much interest in the list circulating right now that has everything from subeditor jobs at Dow Jones to positions at Rupert's Asian company, Star TV.
- For sure, however, every schoolboy (of my generation anyway) knows when at teatime on 16 September the final score – Devon 4 New Zealand 55 – was received by the London sports news agency, the unbelieving subeditor confidently presumed a transmission error and reversed the result to Devon 55 New Zealand 4.
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