subeditor
Pluralsubeditors
- 1A copy editor on a newspaper or magazine, who edits and trims the copy that writers file.
The subeditors rewrote his headline and cut the last three paragraphs to fit the page.
As a subeditor, she spent each night checking facts, tightening copy and writing headlines.
Similarcopyeditor
Note
British newsrooms use this title for a copy editor, and it is also written sub-editor. Cutting is what writers remember: in Douglas Adams's Mostly Harmless (1992), a writer fumes that sub-editors cut fifteen years of research down to two words, 'Mostly harmless.' Both this job and the departmental assistant editor rank below the editor, as the prefix sub- suggests.
- 2An assistant editor, usually working in one particular department of a newspaper.
The paper's foreign subeditor decided which overseas stories would run each morning.
He was promoted from subeditor of the arts pages to deputy editor of the whole paper.
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Origin
Formed from sub- + editor.