Name: Why some of us don't...
Uploaded: 2025-11-05
Description: She had to learn the finer mechanics of sales when she was starting her practice, and this skill now helps her write compelling pitches to editors. It is rarely a waste of time to pursue something you're drawn to, even if you end up quitting. You might apply that knowledge in a different field entirely,

Eva Chen

You do not need to go to journalism school if you want to work in the fashion industry. I think high schools condition you to think this way: If you want to be a fashion editor, go to fashion school. If you want to be a writer, you should study journalism. I think that the best school in life is experience.

Taiwanese Businesswoman

J. R. Moehringer

Write every day; never give up; it's supposed to be difficult; try to find some pleasure and reward in the act of writing, because you can't look for praise from editors, readers, or critics. In other words, tips that are much easier to give than to take.

American Journalist

Jeffrey Brown

I always try to write from memory, and I always try to use memory as an editor. So when I'm thinking of something like a relationship or whatever, then I'm letting my memory tell me what the important things were.

American Cartoonist

Laura Hillenbrand

And at that point, I think my experience in covering the subject helped me. I think editors felt comfortable with the idea of me telling this story because I had demonstrated that I know this business pretty well.

American Author

Frank McCourt

When I first went up to see my editor, I was with my agent, and my editor said, 'Well, what have you been doing all these years?' And my agent said, 'He's been in recovery. From his childhood.

Irish Author

Imran Amed

It's not like I ever sat in my room and said I was going to start a media company and become an editor in chief. It was never my dream. It was something that just happened.

Canadian Editor

Kamal Ahmed

Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs' therefore it, erm, runs.

American Comedian

Rebekah Brooks

I was the editor of the 'News of the World;' I was the editor of the 'Sun' and chief executive.

British Editor

Jane Lindskold

Copy editors are very important and too rarely praised.

American Writer

Linda Sue Park

Most writers adore their editors, and I'm no exception.

Editor's main role is improving text for readers' understanding before it's published.

Publishing Focus

Editors often work unseen to polish writers' works, rarely getting public recognition.

Behind the Scenes

Editors must pay close attention to language, structure, and details in the text.

Attention to Detail

Editors have the authority to choose what content makes it into publication.

Content Decision

As leaders, editors guide the vision and direction of a publication.

Leadership Position

Editors bear responsibility for ensuring the ethical integrity of the publication.

Ethical Responsibility

In computing, an editor is software that lets you enter and modify digital content.

Tech Tools

Editors in tech can also refer to tools for editing photos, videos, or audio.

Multimedia Editing

Digital editors usually feature undo options for easy correction of mistakes.

Ease of Correction

 She had to learn the finer mechanics of sales when she was starting her practice, and this skill now helps her write compelling pitches to editors. It is rarely a waste of time to pursue something you're drawn to, even if you end up quitting. You might apply that knowledge in a different field entirely,

Why some of us don't...

 as for many optional things, probably has something to do with whichever style you were raised on. Your high school teachers favored it? It's likely you're still using it. Your first editor hated it? You probably do, too. And maybe so much hairsplitting over a tiny squiggle on a page is a bit silly.

Grammar's great divide:...

 She was the editor then of a magazine called ID, and she gave me a cover story. This started an incredible journey. Curious encounters were happening to me at the time; I'd been accepting numerous invitations to speak on the design of the cheetah legs around the world.

It's not fair having 12...

 10 studies but only publishes the five that give the result that they want, we don't consider that to be research misconduct. And when that responsibility is diffused between a whole network of researchers, academics, industry sponsors, journal editors, for some reason

What doctors don't know...

 and robin palmer our copy editor is amy kolzak our episode was sound design and engineered by ted woods this podcast is a production of national geographic partners the national geographic society committed to eliminating and protecting the wonder of our world

The Secret Culture of...

 like the incessant texting or the going through his drawers, that tend to lead to this outcome. We see the problem, it's like, if a fight breaks out in every bar you're going to, it might be you. In order to be good editors, we need to offer wise compassion,

How changing your story...

 And the thing is that the algorithms don't yet have the kind of embedded ethics that the editors did. So if algorithms are going to curate the world for us, if they're going to decide what we get to see and what we don't get to see, then we need to make sure

Beware online "filter...

 But he did have one suggestion. He used to work for two editors who said every story had to have at least one female source. He balked at first, but said he eventually followed the directive happily, because his stories got better and his job got easier.

Megan Kamerick: Women...

 The main editor guy sat me down and talked to me for a long time, trying to convince me I had a book in me about my life as a swimmer. You know, like a memoir. The whole time he was talking to me, I sat there smiling and nodding like a numb idiot,

The beauty of being a...

 and he said are you so and so's daughter and I replied yes and he'd been a guest at one of my mother's dinner parties after I left this meeting my editor told me that he had said how I always wondered how that little girl would

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