Newspaper editors focus on editing article text and ensuring it matches their paper’s voice, style, tone, and ethical standards. These editors often work for a certain section or on a particular “beat”-for example, culture, politics, or sports. Newspaper editors work for print and online news publications, shaping coverage and editing stories filed by reporters and writers. “I like independent publishing because there is more opportunity to work on lots of different kinds of books rather than getting siloed into one genre,” Gyllenhaal says. But you can also work for mid-sized, independent, or university presses. Many book editors work for the largest publishing companies in the U.S., known- for now-as “The Big Five”: Penguin Random House, Hachette, Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, and HarperCollins. They help writers with “big structural changes, character arc development, resolving plot issues, adjusting the length, adjusting the tone and style for the intended audience,” and more, Gyllenhaal says. These editors evaluate manuscripts or book proposals (for nonfiction) and decide what projects to take on. (You might also focus on scientific editing or grant editing, for example.) Book editingĮditing fiction and nonfiction books “involves project managing the entire journey of a book,” and getting it on the shelves, says Rebecca Gyllenhaal, an assistant editor at Quirk Books. Here are a few of the most common areas editors work in, but keep in mind that there may be overlap and this list isn’t exhaustive.
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