What does an "editor" at a magazine do?

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I see the Kalmbach members o f our forum all have the word :editor" in their title. What exactly does a magazine editor do? On the surface, it seems like they would edit other people’s writing, and ?

Hi, Murphy Siding:

What do editors do? I hope we provide a crucial part to the enjoyment of this magazine and website. Imagine if a movie had no director or a restaurant had no chef or a train had no conductor. What would those experiences be like? So here’s what we do.

We read stories, evaluate stories, rewrite stories, rearrange stories, schedule stories, tell stories, write stories, illustrate stories, verify stories, correct stories, love stories, hate stories, find stories, fill in stories, trim up stories, question stories, dig up stories, pull out stories, map out stories, organize stories, and do it all over again.

And we’re always the kid that hands in his paper without his name on it.

Thanks for asking. Hope this helps!

Ang

Thanks. I get the gist of this. Editors take the Play Doh of information and make a monthly magazine out of it. Where do the different ranks like Production Editor, Associate Editor and Assistant Editor fit into the plan?

Cool, Murphy Siding. Check out our “Meet the Staff” page. Our bios break down our responsibilities. http://trn.trains.com/en/Magazine/Meet%20the%20Staff.aspx. To be brief, our titles reflect our experience, assistant being the first stepping stone, then associate, and then senior. As production editor, I am the project editor of stories for print and Web, just like the rest of the staff, but I also proofread the entire issue b